The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.Thomas Paine
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity
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Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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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It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engages.
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