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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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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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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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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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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 graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
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It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.
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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights they are altogether duties.
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The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
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I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
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Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.
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Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.
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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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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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The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
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