The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
THOMAS PAINEThe right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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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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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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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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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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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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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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