Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the w…

Thomas Paine
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Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity. ✨ Thomas Paine, Philip Sheldon Foner (1993). The life and major writings of Thomas Paine, Citadel Pr
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A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. ✨ Thomas Paine (1852). The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface, p.98
Priests and conjurors are of the same trade. ✨ Thomas Paine (2013). The Thomas Paine Reader, p.551, Simon and Schuster
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that mil … ▶
Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it. ✨ Common Sense: and The American Crisis I.
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. ✨ Thomas Paine (2015). Common Sense, p.34, Sh … ▶

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