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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.

Thomas Paine

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Coal Flame Liberty Shine
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Appearance Habit Right Thinking Wrong
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
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
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility
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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Discouragement Law Mischief Order World
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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Heart Necessary Soul
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
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
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Children Day Myself Peace Trouble
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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Change Man Myself Opinion Present Right Slave Support
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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Expectation Justice Madness Mercy Murder Trick Violence War Wolf
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue

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