No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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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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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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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 blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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