“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”
— Thomas Paine
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“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
— Thomas Paine
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“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
— Thomas Paine
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“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.”
— Thomas Paine
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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.”
— Thomas Paine
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“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
— Thomas Paine
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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
— Thomas Paine
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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
— Thomas Paine
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“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
— Thomas Paine
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“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”
— Thomas Paine
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“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.”
— Thomas Paine
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