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Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.


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THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
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THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
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THOMAS PAINE And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will...
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THOMAS PAINE My country is the world, and my religion to do good.
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THOMAS PAINE I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. [Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liber...
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THOMAS PAINE Man must go back to nature for information.
THOMAS PAINE When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
THOMAS PAINE Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
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THOMAS PAINE The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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THOMAS PAINE A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; b...
THOMAS PAINE The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
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THOMAS PAINE We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
THOMAS PAINE It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
THOMAS PAINE The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
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THOMAS PAINE A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
THOMAS PAINE It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
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THOMAS PAINE When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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THOMAS PAINE Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
THOMAS PAINE As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ...
THOMAS PAINE The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has...
THOMAS PAINE When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...
THOMAS PAINE Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
THOMAS PAINE But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing ...
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