Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
THOMAS PAINE
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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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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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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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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