Author

Thomas Paine

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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.”— Thomas Paine
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“These are the times that try men's souls.”— Thomas Paine
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“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.”— Thomas Paine
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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”— Thomas Paine
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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”— Thomas Paine
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“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”— Thomas Paine
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”— Thomas Paine
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“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”— Thomas Paine
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“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”— Thomas Paine
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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”— Thomas Paine
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“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”— Thomas Paine
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“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”— Thomas Paine
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“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.”— Thomas Paine
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“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”— Thomas Paine
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.”— Thomas Paine
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“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”— Thomas Paine
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“Time makes more converts than reason.”— Thomas Paine
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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”— Thomas Paine
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“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”— Thomas Paine
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“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”— Thomas Paine