Government is a necessary evil

Thomas Paine
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Government is a necessary evil
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What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder. ✨ Thomas Paine (1995). Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76), p.8 … ▶
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As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men. ✨ Thomas Paine (1854). The Works of Thomas … ▶
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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