The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
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It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.Thomas Paine
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.
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And no less preeminent a champion of American independence than Thomas Paine had the following words of reproach for the Good Book 'As to the book called the Bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions, and a history of bad times and bad men. There are but a few good characters in the whole book.'
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
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Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.
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