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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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Commitment Cruelty Faith Marriage Murder Rape Teaching Woman
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Light Value Worth
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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Change Man Myself Opinion Present Right Slave Support
To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Man Slave Vote
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise
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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Creation Existence Faith Greatness Miracle Need Trick
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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Appearance Habit Reason Time Wrong
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Errors Mistake Philosophy Truth Wisdom
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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Enemy Establishment Himself Liberty Oppression Reach Security Violate
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Afraid Fear Man One Liner Slave Thinking
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
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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Government Ignorance Kind Man Trade
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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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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