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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Coal Flame Liberty Shine
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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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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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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