Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
THOMAS PAINEThere are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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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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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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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