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.
THOMAS PAINEThe right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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 greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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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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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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