Virtue is not hereditary.
THOMAS PAINEThe slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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To 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.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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Government is best which governs least.
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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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