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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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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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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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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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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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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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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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