Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
THOMAS PAINEThe harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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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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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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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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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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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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