The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
THOMAS PAINEThe slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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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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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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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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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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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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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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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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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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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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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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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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