Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés reason

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés character steadfastness

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Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés government king monarchy

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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

Thomas Paine

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These are the times that try men's souls.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés adversity american-revolution trials

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To reason with governments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected.

Thomas Paine

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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Thomas Paine

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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés ideas-progress-truth

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés christianity religion skepticism

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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés science christianity religion skepticism the-bible

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