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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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Ignorance is of a peculiar nature once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
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Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
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To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.
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Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
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Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
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Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?
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Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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The more we bestow the richer we become.
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A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
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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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... in free countries the law ought to be King and there ought to be no other.
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