To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
THOMAS PAINEWhat we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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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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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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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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