The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
THOMAS PAINEIt is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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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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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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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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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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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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