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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Thomas Paine

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Government is best which governs least.
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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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