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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

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Angel Character God Man Reputation Thinking Woman
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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Extraordinary Generation Government Kind Pay Power
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Coal Flame Liberty Shine
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Dare Himself Honesty Offend
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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Appearance Freedom Liberty Nature Reason Rebel Truth
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
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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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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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.

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