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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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 case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.
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The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
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I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
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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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And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
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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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We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.
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It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.
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