There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
THOMAS PAINEWhat we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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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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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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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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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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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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