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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. "

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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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Man

" It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. "

" The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. "

" To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. "

" Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. "

" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "

" Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. "

" Time makes more converts than reason. "

Thomas Paine

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Reason

" Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. "

" We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. "

" That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. "

" One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. "

Thomas Paine

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Good

" It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. "

" My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. "

" Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. "

" Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. "

" The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. "

" An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. "

" Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. "

" We have it in our power to begin the world over again. "

" These are the times that try men's souls. "

" The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. "

" A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. "

" 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. "

" What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. "

" The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. "

" He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. "

" It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. "

" There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. "

" If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. "