Character is much easier kept than recovered.
THOMAS PAINEI consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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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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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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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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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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