When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
THOMAS PAINEAll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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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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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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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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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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