The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.

Thomas Paine

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

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Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

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[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

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

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There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

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

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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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

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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.

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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