The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Government is best which governs least.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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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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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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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 easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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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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