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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

Thomas Paine

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
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
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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Expectation Justice Madness Mercy Murder Trick Violence War Wolf
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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Book Existence Reading
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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Heart Necessary Soul
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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Confidence Government Man Necessary Power
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself

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