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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809)

1737-02-09
1809-06-08
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Awards and Movements

Georg Büchner Preis 2008

Some Poems

What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
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.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Thomas Paine - 'The most valuable Englishman ever' by Kenneth Griffith 1982
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Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of the Left and Right
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Thomas Paine "The American Crisis"
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Harvey J. Kaye on Thomas Paine and the Left-Wing of the American Revolution
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The Spirit of Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine - Rights Of Man - Full Audiobook
Christopher Hitchens | The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
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Thomas Paine - Common Sense
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense and American Crisis

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