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Thomas Paine

We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

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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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