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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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I believe in one God, and no more and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.
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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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It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
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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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When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.
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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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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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For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.
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He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat.
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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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If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
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