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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

Thomas Paine

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Action Man Right
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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Country Goodness Happiness Independence Person Place Religion View World
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Dare Himself Honesty Offend
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
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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Creation God Goodness Happiness Hypocrisy Practice Service
Government is best which governs least.
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Government Politics Rule
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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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
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
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
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Government Greedy Hands Organization
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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Election Himself Man Protection Representation Right Slave Vote
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support

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