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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thomas Paine

No 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.
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Country Freedom Government People Power Royalty
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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Confidence Government Man Necessary Power
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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Corruption Cruelty History Human Kind Religion Service Sincere
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
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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Children Choice Live Myself Peace Time Trouble
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Enemy Fight Greatness Oneself Philosophy
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Afraid Fear Man One Liner Slave Thinking
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Ignorance Obedience Reason
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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Commitment Eat Kind Man Murder People Religion Sin Strange
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
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
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Angry Principle Vice Virtue
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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Expectation Justice Madness Mercy Murder Trick Violence War Wolf
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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Coal Flame Liberty Shine

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