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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
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Religion 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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Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.
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The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
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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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It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention it is only the application of them that is human.
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Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
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The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
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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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The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.
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The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
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All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.
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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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The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
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...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.
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It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
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