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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Thomas Paine

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
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
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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Darkness Enlightenment Mindset
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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Glory Hard Hard Time Inspirational Motivational Struggle Success
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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Ability Error Illusion Man Responsibility
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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Confidence Government Man Necessary Power
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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Expectation Justice Madness Mercy Murder Trick Violence War Wolf
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Accountable Body Hold Man Trust
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity
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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Appearance Habit Reason Time Wrong
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
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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Book Existence Reading
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Goodness Priest Worth
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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Believe Corruption Crime Himself Man Mindset Preparation Prostitution
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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Discouragement Law Mischief Order World

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

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