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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Thomas Paine

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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Appearance Freedom Liberty Nature Reason Rebel Truth
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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Creation God Goodness Happiness Hypocrisy Practice Service
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Afraid Fear Man One Liner Slave Thinking
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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Equality Opposition Place Right
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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Country People Property Protection Security War
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Perfection Rebel Right
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
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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Commitment Eat Kind Man Murder People Religion Sin Strange
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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Discouragement Law Mischief Order World
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Government Ignorance Kind Man Trade
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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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
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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Extraordinary Generation Government Kind Pay Power

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