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.
THOMAS PAINEOur greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Practical 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.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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