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Quote by Thomas Paine
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstan

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine

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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. – Thomas Paine

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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