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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

Thomas Paine

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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Ability Error Illusion Man Responsibility
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Appearance Habit Right Thinking Wrong
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Goodness Priest Worth
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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Confidence Government Man Necessary Power
Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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Discover Equality Existence Gift Impossible Man Right
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
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Children Day Myself Peace Trouble
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
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Government Greedy Hands Organization
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Best Evil Government Necessary Oneself Tolerance Worst
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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Expectation Justice Madness Mercy Murder Trick Violence War Wolf
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Accountable Body Hold Man Trust

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