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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Thomas Paine

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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Book Existence Reading
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
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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Country Freedom Government People Power Royalty
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Deserve Man Patriot Shine Soldier Soul Stand Sun Thankful Time Try Woman
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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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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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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