A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINETo argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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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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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Government is best which governs least.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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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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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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