The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
THOMAS PAINETo take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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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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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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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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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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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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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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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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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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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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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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