It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
THOMAS PAINEA body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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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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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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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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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 harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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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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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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