Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
THOMAS PAINECharacter is much easier kept than recovered.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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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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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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