The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. - Thomas Paine

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You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

Thomas Paine

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

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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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