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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
Author
Entrepreneur
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
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Thetford
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Every Tory is a coward for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.
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Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
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Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
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Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation itself which none but an Almighty Power could make? For the Bible says one thing and the creation says the contrary. The Bible represents God with all the passions of a mortal, and the creation proclaims him with all the attributes of a God.
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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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I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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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 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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The people of America are a people of property almost every man is a freeholder.
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Titles do not count with posterity.
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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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