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.
THOMAS PAINEA 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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