The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
THOMAS PAINEReason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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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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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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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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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Government is best which governs least.
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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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