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Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy (Thomas Paine Quotes)
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead (Thomas Paine Quotes)
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith (Thomas Paine Quotes)
It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this which America is now engaged in (Thomas Paine Quotes)
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances... That no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Edmund Burke is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: They define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax (Thomas Paine Quotes)
When, in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government (Thomas Paine Quotes)
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure (Thomas Paine Quotes)
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy (Thomas Paine Quotes)
No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured (Thomas Paine Quotes)
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance (Thomas Paine Quotes)
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted (Thomas Paine Quotes)
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest, he loses a subject (Thomas Paine Quotes)
How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who, in the midst of his splendor, is crumbling into dust (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The world is my country, all mankind is my brethren, to do good is my religion, I believe in one God and no more (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all! (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics (Thomas Paine Quotes)
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude (Thomas Paine Quotes)
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home (Thomas Paine Quotes)