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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.
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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.
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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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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
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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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Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
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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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Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.
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A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
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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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Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.
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When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
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The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
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