Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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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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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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