Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
THOMAS PAINEThe right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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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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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 person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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