The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINEPractical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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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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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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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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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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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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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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