The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment without a constitution, is a power without a right.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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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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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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