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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

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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Body Government Man Right Togetherness Trust
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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Extraordinary Generation Government Kind Pay Power
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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Fear Human Invention Power Profit Religion
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Children Day Myself Peace Trouble
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Deserve Man Patriot Shine Soldier Soul Stand Sun Thankful Time Try Woman
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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Expectation Justice Madness Mercy Murder Trick Violence War Wolf
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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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Brave Growth Man Reality Reflection Strength Trouble
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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Arrogance Beginning Career Hypocrisy Politics
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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