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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Thomas Paine

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

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