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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

Thomas Paine

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.
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Creation God Goodness Happiness Hypocrisy Practice Service
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
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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Enemy Establishment Himself Liberty Oppression Reach Security Violate
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
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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Liberty Ourselves Sound Success Tree Unity
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Government Greedy Hands Organization
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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Ability Error Illusion Man Responsibility
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
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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Believe Corruption Crime Himself Man Mindset Preparation Prostitution
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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Darkness Enlightenment Mindset
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Country Goodness Kind Man Religion World
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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Country People Property Protection Security War
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise

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