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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Thomas Paine

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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Government Important Lose People Sight
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience 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
These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Hard Time Man Soul Struggle Time Try
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
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Community Himself Leadership
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Country Goodness Kind Man Religion World
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Goodness Priest Worth
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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Corruption Cruelty History Human Kind Religion Service Sincere
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
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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Discover Equality Existence Gift Impossible Man Right
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
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

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