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  1. The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty - who stepped forth as the champion …
  2. To my simple mind it is not obvious that a successful electrician is an authority on the immortal soul, any more than that a successful mil…
  3. He has been called an atheist, but atheist he was not. Paine believed in a supreme intelligence, as representing the idea which other men o…
  4. He felt there was a central processing core of life that went on and on. That was his conclusion. We talked of it many times together . . .…
  5. Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with…
  6. If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he …
  7. Looking back to those times we cannot, without much reading, clearly gauge the sentiment of the Colonies. Perhaps the larger number of resp…
  8. I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Const…

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