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?
THOMAS PAINEThe greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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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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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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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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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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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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