Freethought of the Day

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January 3

There are 2 entries for this date: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Quote) and Lucretia Mott (Quote)

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Quote)

“Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.”

—Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE), born on Jan. 3, 106. Tusculanae disputationes. Cicero authored "Of the Nature of the Gods."

Lucretia Mott (Quote)

“Truth for authority, not authority for truth.”
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—Unorthodox Quakeress Lucretia Mott, born on Jan. 3, 1793. Mott's motto. Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol., I, p. 442