Character is much easier kept than recovered.
THOMAS PAINEA 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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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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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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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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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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