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.
THOMAS PAINEI 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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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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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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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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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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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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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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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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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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