When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

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

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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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

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What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine in The American Crisis
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