To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
THOMAS PAINEOur greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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.
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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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 harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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