Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
THOMAS PAINEIt 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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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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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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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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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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From 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.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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