Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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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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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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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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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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The 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.
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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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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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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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