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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Community Himself Leadership
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise
To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Man Slave Vote
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
Government is best which governs least.
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Government Politics Rule
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 slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Afraid Fear Man One Liner Slave Thinking
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Appearance Habit Right Thinking Wrong
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
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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Glory Hard Hard Time Inspirational Motivational Struggle Success
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Light Value Worth
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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Children Choice Live Myself Peace Time Trouble
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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