I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
THOMAS PAINEFrom the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Government is best which governs least.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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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 greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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