Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
THOMAS PAINEA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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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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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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