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Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Book by Thomas Paine · 3 quotes · Men, Constitution, Political

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Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion Quotes

“People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.”

“No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.”