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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
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The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.
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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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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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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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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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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected if not, they will be despised.
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
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The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
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Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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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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For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.
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The more we bestow the richer we become.
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