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.
THOMAS PAINERights 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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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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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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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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