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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Thomas Paine

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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Country Goodness Happiness Independence Person Place Religion View World
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Administration Argument Death Medicine Person Reason
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Enemy Establishment Himself Liberty Oppression Reach Security Violate
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
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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Liberty Ourselves Sound Success Tree Unity
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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Extraordinary Generation Government Kind Pay Power
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength
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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Commitment Cruelty Faith Marriage Murder Rape Teaching Woman
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
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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Fear Human Invention Power Profit Religion
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
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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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Light Value Worth
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Country Goodness Kind Man Religion World

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

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