The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
THOMAS PAINETo 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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A 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.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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