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Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
Thomas Paine
To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
Thomas Paine
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.
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The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
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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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[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
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The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
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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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The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
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The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.
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It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention it is only the application of them that is human.
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.
Thomas Paine
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.
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There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.
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