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“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

Thomas Paine · Men

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Thomas Paine

'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.

Business

Thomas Paine

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.

Power

Thomas Paine

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

God

Thomas Paine

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Truth