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Thomas Paine was an English-born American philosopher and revolutionary. He encouraged the independance of the Unites States from Britain and the French revolution in 1789.

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" Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime. "
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" To God, and not to man, are all men to account for their belief. "
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" The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. "
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" Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. "
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" Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. "
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" It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. "
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" A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any bo... "
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" We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for ho... "
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" The word of God is the creation we behold and it is in this word, which no human invention... "
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" It is of the utmost danger to society to make it (religion) a party in political disputes. "
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" Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscien... "
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" It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a... "
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" What can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the A... "
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" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances th... "
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" But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it... "
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" I bid you farewell, sincerely wishing, that as men and christians, ye may always fully and... "
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" God is the power of first cause, nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon. "
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