Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
THOMAS PAINEOne good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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Government is best which governs least.
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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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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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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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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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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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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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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