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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

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
Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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Carry Deep Tax War
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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Arrogance Beginning Career Hypocrisy Politics
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
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
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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Commitment Eat Kind Man Murder People Religion Sin Strange
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Action Man Right
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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Darkness Enlightenment Mindset
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
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
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
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Government Ignorance Kind Man Trade
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
To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Man Slave Vote

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