To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
THOMAS PAINETo argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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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.
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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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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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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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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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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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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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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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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