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?
THOMAS PAINEIt is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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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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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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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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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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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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