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  • To Thomas Jefferson, December 16, 1788

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    Addressed to all inhabitants of the world. #ThomasPaine
    “Mingling religion with politics may be disavowe “Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.” — Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
    Thomas Paine died on June 8, 1809 in New York City Thomas Paine died on June 8, 1809 in New York City. In his 72 years of life, he did much good. He lives on through his writings.
    “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage a “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” —Robert F Kennedy, June 6, 1966
    Happy Birthday Bob! (Bob Dylan Presented With Tom Happy Birthday Bob! (Bob Dylan Presented With Tom Paine Award, December 1963)
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    "It is comfortable to live under the belief of the "It is comfortable to live under the belief of the existence of an infinite protecting power; and it is an addition to that comfort to know that such a belief is not a mere conceit of the imagination, as many of the theories that are called religious are; nor a belief founded only on tradition or received opinion; but is a belief deducible by the action of reason upon the things that compose the system of the universe; a belief arising out of visible facts. So demonstrable is the truth of this belief that if no such belief had existed, the persons who now controvert it would have been the persons who would have produced and propagated it; because by beginning to reason they would have been led to reason progressively to the end, and thereby have discovered that matter and the properties it has will not account for the system of the universe, and that there must necessarily be a superior cause. It was the excess to which imaginary systems of religion had been carried, and the intolerance, persecutions, burnings and massacres they occasioned, that first induced certain persons to propagate infidelity; thinking, that upon the whole it was better not to believe at all than to believe a multitude of things and complicated creeds that occasioned so much mischief in the world." —Thomas Paine, The Existence of God, 1797
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