The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
THOMAS PAINEThe Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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