The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINEReligion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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