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#1

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: close-mindedness, simile, stubbornness

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#2

“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

tags: corporations, founding-fathers, government

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#3

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

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#4

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: blessings, freedom, liberty

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#5

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

tags: doctrine, equal-rights, freedom, liberty, morality, rights

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#6

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

tags: equality, ethics, morality, rights, secular-ethics, secular-morality

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#7

“There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.”
― Price Collier

tags: character

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#8

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

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#9

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: conviction, freedom, values

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#10

“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: belief, bible, cruel, cruelty, murder, rapine, the-bible

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#11

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
― Thomas Paine

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#12

“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, Common Sense

tags: common-sense

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#13

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: growth, strength, struggle, triumph

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#14

“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

tags: boast, constitution, government, happiness, independence, perfect-government, perfection

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#15

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
― Thomas Paine

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#16

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
― Thomas Paine

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#17

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism

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#18

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

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, The Age of Reason

tags: church, creed, enslave, greek, human-invention, jewish, monopolize, power, profit, protestant, religion, roman, turkish

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#19

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: character, reputation

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#20

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: christianity, religion, skepticism

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#21

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: accountability, trust

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#22

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: anger, anger-management

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#23

“Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: inspirational, politics

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#24

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: history, revolution

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#25

“My own mind is my own church.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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#26

“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: truth

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#27

“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: reason

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#28

“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.”
― Thomas Paine

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#29

“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, The Age of Reason

tags: belief, disbelief, happiness, infidelity, lie, self-respect

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#30

“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...”
― Thomas Paine

tags: war

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