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.
THOMAS PAINETo argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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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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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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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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A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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