Government is best which governs least.
THOMAS PAINE
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Government is best which governs least.
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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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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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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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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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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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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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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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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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