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Quotes by Thomas Paine
- I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
- If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
- It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
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