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To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.


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THOMAS PAINE It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance
THOMAS PAINE One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests
THOMAS PAINE The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on...
THOMAS PAINE I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...
THOMAS PAINE Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...
THOMAS PAINE All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposto...
THOMAS PAINE The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to t...
THOMAS PAINE Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...
THOMAS PAINE With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrecti...
THOMAS PAINE The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapte...
THOMAS PAINE It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...
THOMAS PAINE In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...
THOMAS PAINE That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of n...
THOMAS PAINE Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou...
THOMAS PAINE People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
THOMAS PAINE He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
THOMAS PAINE As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ...
THOMAS PAINE The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has...
THOMAS PAINE When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...
THOMAS PAINE Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
THOMAS PAINE But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing ...
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