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THOMAS PAINE
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men t...
THOMAS PAINE
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapp...
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different tha...
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Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of ...
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society
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But such is the nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing irre...
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Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible
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Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who...
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Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek chur...
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The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old ...
THOMAS PAINE
These are the times that try men’s souls. He that stands now deserves the love and thanks of men a...
THOMAS PAINE
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his cou...
THOMAS PAINE
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking...
THOMAS PAINE
That government is best which governs least.
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...it is easy to see that when the republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book ...
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The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose...
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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness
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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty,...
THOMAS PAINE
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violat...
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this ...
THOMAS PAINE
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its valu...
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The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those ac...
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Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews...
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It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests an...
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[The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't ...
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When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress i...
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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introdu...
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The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind
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My mind is my own church.
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Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of ...
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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and N...
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...
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These repeated forgeries and falsifications create a well-founded suspicion that all the cases spoke...
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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposto...
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and fi...
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and r...
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it
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Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of de...
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of ...
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he viol...
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These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this cris...
THOMAS PAINE
Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighb...
THOMAS PAINE
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests
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The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on...
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...
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Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...
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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposto...
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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...
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With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrecti...
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The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapte...
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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...
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In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...
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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of n...
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Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou...
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People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
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He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
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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 ...
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The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has...
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When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...
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Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
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It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
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But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing ...
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