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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thomas Paine

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
THOMAS PAINE

Country Goodness Happiness Independence Person Place Religion View World
Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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Body Government Man Right Togetherness Trust
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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Commitment Eat Kind Man Murder People Religion Sin Strange
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Children Choice Live Myself Peace Time Trouble
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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Commitment Cruelty Faith Marriage Murder Rape Teaching Woman
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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Discouragement Law Mischief Order World
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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Corruption Cruelty History Human Kind Religion Service Sincere
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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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Goodness Priest Worth
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Country Goodness Kind Man Religion World
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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Ability Error Illusion Man Responsibility
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Community Himself Leadership
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
THOMAS PAINE

Ignorance Obedience Reason

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