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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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Government is best which governs least.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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