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Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) framed the Patriot argument for independence from Great Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. Paine advanced Enlightenment-era arguments for human rights that shaped revolutionary discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

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

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose cons…

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.