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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

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
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
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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Appearance Freedom Liberty Nature Reason Rebel Truth
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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Arrogance Beginning Career Hypocrisy Politics
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
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
If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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Believe Evidence Myself Philosophy Yourself
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 real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Brave Growth Man Reality Reflection Strength Trouble
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
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Afraid Fear Man One Liner Slave Thinking
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Perfection Rebel Right
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
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

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