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"The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system." Thomas Paine Quotes
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Thomas Paine was a British writer and thinker. These are some of his famous quotes.
| | Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |
| | The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. |
| | When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. |
| | It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. |
| | I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. |
| | It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. |
| | It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand. |
| | Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple. |
| | He who dares not offend cannot be honest. |
| | I care not a straw for the opinions of the world. |
| | It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. |
| | That government is best which governs least. |
| | Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. |
| | It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. |
| | It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. |
| | The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. |
| | THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter. |
| | Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. |
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