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.
THOMAS PAINEIt is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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 trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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