A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
THOMAS PAINEIn 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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Government is best which governs least.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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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. 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.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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