The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
THOMAS PAINECharacter is much easier kept than recovered.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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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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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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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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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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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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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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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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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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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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