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Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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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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I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
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The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
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It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.
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I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.
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