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.
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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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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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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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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