Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
THOMAS PAINEIf I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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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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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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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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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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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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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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