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Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
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To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.
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The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.
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Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.
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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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Kill the king but spare the man.
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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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My country is wherever liberty lives.
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...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
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The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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