Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
THOMAS PAINEThe harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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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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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Government is best which governs least.
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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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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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