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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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Entrepreneur
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Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
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Thetford
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Government is a necessary evil
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.
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Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.
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Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to bind me in all cases whatsoever to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.
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From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
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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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It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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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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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
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