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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

Thomas Paine

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
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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Corruption Cruelty History Human Kind Religion Service Sincere
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Goodness Priest Worth
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity
Government is best which governs least.
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Government Politics Rule
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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Government Ignorance Nation Politics Support
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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Government Important Lose People Sight
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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Discover Equality Existence Gift Impossible Man Right
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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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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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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