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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Paine

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
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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Country Goodness Happiness Independence Person Place Religion View World
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
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
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
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
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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Believe Evidence Myself Philosophy Yourself
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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Discouragement Law Mischief Order World
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Government Ignorance Kind Man Trade
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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Government Important Lose People Sight
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Angel Character God Man Reputation Thinking Woman
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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Commitment Eat Kind Man Murder People Religion Sin Strange
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Hard Time Man Soul Struggle Time Try

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