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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
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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Commitment Eat Kind Man Murder People Religion Sin Strange
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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Believe Beyond Equality God Happiness Hope Justice Life Mercy Ourselves
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
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Angry Principle Vice Virtue
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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Country People Property Protection Security War
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
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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Creation Existence Faith Greatness Miracle Need Trick
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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Confidence Government Man Necessary Power
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Perfection Rebel Right
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
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
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Man Support
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
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
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

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