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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine föddes den 29 januar 1737 och dog den 8 juni 1809 - and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.
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The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act

Religion

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch

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

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance

But such is the nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing irresistible

Time makes more converts than reason.

Tid

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Frihet

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible

Lies

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in

A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation

Religion

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