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Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

By Thomas Paine
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true

By Thomas Paine
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

By Thomas Paine
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

By Thomas Paine
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.

By Thomas Paine
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

By Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

By Thomas Paine
'What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

By Thomas Paine
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

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Human nature is not of itself vicious.

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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

By Thomas Paine