Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God - as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.Thomas Paine
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
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