The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
THOMAS PAINEVirtue is not hereditary.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Government is best which governs least.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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