An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINEThose who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Government is best which governs least.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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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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