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True Quotes by Thomas Paine
- This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
- The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and…
- In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the…
- Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early…
- Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,…
- It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
- That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the…
- ...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
- Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
- That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as…
- That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as…
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