The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
THOMAS PAINEThe harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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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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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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