TW: Okay we all know about "give me liberty or give me death" and the right-wing nuts have bastardized Paine to a certain degree but he had some good stuff.
From Thomas Paine:
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. "
"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. "
"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. "
"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason"
TW: Did you know he was the source of these?
"That government is best which governs least"
"These are the times that try men's souls"
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