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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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Commitment Cruelty Faith Marriage Murder Rape Teaching Woman
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Coal Flame Liberty Shine
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
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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Constitution Exercise Government Illegal Limitation Logic Natural Power Result
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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Darkness Enlightenment Mindset
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
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Action Man Right
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Dare Himself Honesty Offend
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Best Evil Government Necessary Oneself Tolerance Worst
In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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Belief Creation Existence Happiness Himself Reason Time Unity Universe Wonderful
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Errors Mistake Philosophy Truth Wisdom
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Children Day Myself Peace Trouble

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