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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
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...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
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Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.
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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 when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.
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A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
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Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.
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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state up and help us lay your shoulders to the wheel better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.
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Kill the king but spare the man.
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But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.
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I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.
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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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Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will.
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
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