Elihu Palmer famous quotes

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
-- Elihu Palmer

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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.
-- Elihu Palmer

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Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.
-- Elihu Palmer

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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.