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Against Quotes by Thomas Paine
- I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf,…
- Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during…
- It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.…
- It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
- How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- 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…
- The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
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