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.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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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 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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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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