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Quotations by author » Thomas Paine
English born American Writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809
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The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached
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The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
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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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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
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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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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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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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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
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There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst
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Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible
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These are the times that try men's souls.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. He that stands now deserves the love and thanks of men and women.
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These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
Social service
These repeated forgeries and falsifications create a well-founded suspicion that all the cases spoken of concerning the person called Jesus Christ are made cases, on purpose to lug in, and that very clumsily, some broken sentences from the Old Testam
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These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it
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Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
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Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire
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