I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
THOMAS PAINEThe harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Government is best which governs least.
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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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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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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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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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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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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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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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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.
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