“The world is my country, and to do good my religion.”
Thomas Paine
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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
Thomas Paine
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“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
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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“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.”
Thomas Paine
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
Thomas Paine
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“He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.”
Thomas Paine
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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
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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“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
Thomas Paine
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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
Thomas Paine
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“My own mind is my own church.”
Thomas Paine
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“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
Thomas Paine
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“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.”
Thomas Paine
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“Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.”
Thomas Paine
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“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
Thomas Paine
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“A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.”
Thomas Paine
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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
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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“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”
Thomas Paine
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