He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
THOMAS PAINEA nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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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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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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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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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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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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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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