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Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity
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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Discover Equality Existence Gift Impossible Man Right
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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Creation God Goodness Happiness Hypocrisy Practice Service
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
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
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Errors Mistake Philosophy Truth Wisdom
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
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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Country People Property Protection Security War
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Light Value Worth
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Enemy Establishment Himself Liberty Oppression Reach Security Violate
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Coal Flame Liberty Shine
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Man Support

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

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