The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
THOMAS PAINE
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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