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The people of America are a people of property almost every man is a freeholder.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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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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Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
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A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
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A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.
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Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.
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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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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
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But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?
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In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings the consequence of which was there were no wars it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
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Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
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Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
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As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.
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The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.
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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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The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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