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" Character is much easier kept than recovered. "
Thomas Paine
Easier
Character
Much
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" 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. "
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" We have it in our power to begin the world over again. "
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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. "
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" There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. "
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" He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. "
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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. "
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" The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. "
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" What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. "
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Too
Everything
Cheap
" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "
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Habit
Long
Thinking
" Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. "
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" When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. "
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Virtue
Remember
" We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. "
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Only
Possibilities
" Time makes more converts than reason. "
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Reason
More
" When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. "
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Men
Shadow
Thinking
" Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. "
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Titles
Title
Nicknames
" Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. "
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Mean
Souls
Society
" Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. "
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Bear
Want
Reap
" 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. "
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God
Because
Argument
" 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. "
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Temper
Moderation
Good
" These are the times that try men's souls. "
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Try
Times
Souls
" An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. "
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Where
Soldiers
Principles
" One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. "
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More
Than
Good
" The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. "
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Errors
Reason
Most
" That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. "
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Esteem
Too
Lightly
" Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. "
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Affect
Tyranny
Worst
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My Own
Own
Church
" Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. "
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God
" The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. "
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