Tag: 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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Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas Paine
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine