The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
THOMAS PAINEWhat 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Government is best which governs least.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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