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.
THOMAS PAINEIf there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Government is best which governs least.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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