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

Thomas Paine

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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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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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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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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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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