When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
THOMAS PAINE
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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?
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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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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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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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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