A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
THOMAS PAINEIt is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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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 World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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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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