Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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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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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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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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 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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