Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
THOMAS PAINEI 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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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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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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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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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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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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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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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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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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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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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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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