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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Thomas Paine

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
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Character Easy Recovery
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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Corruption Cruelty History Human Kind Religion Service Sincere
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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Election Himself Man Protection Representation Right Slave Vote
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
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
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
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
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Country Goodness Kind Man Religion World
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Angry Principle Vice Virtue
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Perfection Rebel Right
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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Believe Corruption Crime Himself Man Mindset Preparation Prostitution
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Errors Mistake Philosophy Truth Wisdom

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