“For mankind to hate truth as it may bring their evil deeds to light and punishment, is very easy and common, but to hate truth as truth, or God as God, which is the same as to hate goodness for its own sake, unconnected with any other consequences, is impossible even to a (premised) diabolical nature itself .” - Ethan Allen (1738-1789) Reason the Only Oracle of Man. Page 31 - American officer in Revolutionary War, associated with early Vermont.