What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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