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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.

Thomas Paine

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Community Himself Leadership
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
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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Easy Government Greatness Ignorance Influence Kind Man Reason
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Light Value Worth
Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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Carry Deep Tax War
To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Man Slave Vote
In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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Belief Creation Existence Happiness Himself Reason Time Unity Universe Wonderful
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
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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Heart Necessary Soul
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Action Man Right
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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Live Man Pay Privilege Tax
Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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Body Government Man Right Togetherness Trust
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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Constitution Exercise Government Illegal Limitation Logic Natural Power Result

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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