The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINEThe harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINEA nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
THOMAS PAINEEvery person of learning is finally his own teacher.
THOMAS PAINEIt has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
THOMAS PAINENo 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 PAINEA 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.
THOMAS PAINEThose who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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.
THOMAS PAINEFor though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
THOMAS PAINEWhat we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
THOMAS PAINEI 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.
THOMAS PAINEThere are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
THOMAS PAINETo take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
THOMAS PAINEA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINEEvery proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
THOMAS PAINEA 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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