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• The world is my country, all mankind are my brethern, and to do good is my religion.
  -- 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....
• Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceeded it.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. -- Edmund Burke
• My mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine
• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucherie
  he 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....
• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
  It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies....
• Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
  It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies....
• A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. -- Thomas Paine