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 PAINEBeware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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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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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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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.
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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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