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Thomas Paine

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist

1737–1809

49 quotes, most often on America, Freedom and Truth & Lies. Part of the Founding Fathers collection.

My mind is my own church.
The Age of Reason (1794), Part I (1794), 1. The Author’s Profession of Faith
- Religion
Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy.
Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Atheism
- Religion
The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties.
Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Atheism
- Religion

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