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.
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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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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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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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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Government is best which governs least.
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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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