Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
THOMAS PAINEI 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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