Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

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• Thomas Paine:

  These are the times that try men's souls.

• Thomas Paine:

  It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

• Thomas Paine:

  It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

• Thomas Paine:

  One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

• Thomas Paine:

  Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

• Thomas Paine:

  The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

• Thomas Paine:

  It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

• Thomas Paine:

  Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

• Thomas Paine:

  That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not,

• Thomas Paine:

  He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a