The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINEWe have it in our power to begin the world over again.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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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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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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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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