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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Paine

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Perfection Rebel Right
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Hard Time Man Soul Struggle Time Try
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Appearance Habit Right Thinking Wrong
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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Enemy Establishment Himself Liberty Oppression Reach Security Violate
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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Administration Argument Atheist Authority Humanity Man Medicine Philosophy Reason Scripture
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
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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Appearance Habit Reason Time Wrong
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
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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Creation God Goodness Happiness Hypocrisy Practice Service
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Man Support
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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Extraordinary Generation Government Kind Pay Power
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
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
Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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Carry Deep Tax War
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
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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Country People Property Protection Security War
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
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Action Man Right
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Community Himself Leadership
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Character Easy Recovery
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
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
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
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

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