It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
THOMAS PAINEI consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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