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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Thomas Paine

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
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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Darkness Enlightenment Mindset
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
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
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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Discover Equality Existence Gift Impossible Man Right
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
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Character Easy Recovery
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Perfection Rebel Right
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength
To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Man Slave Vote
Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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Carry Deep Tax War
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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Fear Human Invention Power Profit Religion
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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Enemy Establishment Himself Liberty Oppression Reach Security Violate
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

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