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 PAINEThe 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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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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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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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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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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