A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINEThese are the times that try men’s souls.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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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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Government is best which governs least.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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 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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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 mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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