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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

Thomas Paine

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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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Community Himself Leadership
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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Heart Necessary Soul
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
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
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
There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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Live Man Pay Privilege Tax
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity
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
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Administration Argument Death Medicine Person Reason
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Light Value Worth
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Errors Mistake Philosophy Truth Wisdom
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
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

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