Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
THOMAS PAINEWhat 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.
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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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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. 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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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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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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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