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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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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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If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
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Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
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As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.
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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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Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to bind me in all cases whatsoever to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?
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The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.
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For freemen like brothers agree With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
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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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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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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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... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.
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I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.
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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
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The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.
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The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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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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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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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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