Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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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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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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 World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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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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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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