If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
- Thomas Paine
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- To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the...
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
- No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether...
- He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
- Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the...
- [A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They...
- If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part,...
- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he...
- The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;...
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