It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
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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.Thomas Paine
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine
Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Thomas Paine
Virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
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.
Thomas Paine
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