The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
THOMAS PAINEThe greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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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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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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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.
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I 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.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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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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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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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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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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