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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

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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Country Goodness Happiness Independence Person Place Religion View World
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Errors Mistake Philosophy Truth Wisdom
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
These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Hard Time Man Soul Struggle Time Try
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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Belief Creation Existence Happiness Himself Reason Time Unity Universe Wonderful
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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Book Existence Reading
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
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
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Children Day Myself Peace Trouble
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Goodness Priest Worth
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Accountable Body Hold Man Trust
Government is best which governs least.
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Government Politics Rule
A 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.
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Appearance Habit Reason Time Wrong
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself

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