Thomas Paine Quotes About Peace
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Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
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In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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