Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
THOMAS PAINEIt is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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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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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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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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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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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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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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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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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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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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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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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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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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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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