When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.Thomas Paine
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine
What we may obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly t is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.
Thomas Paine
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
Thomas Paine
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