Government is best which governs least.
THOMAS PAINEThose who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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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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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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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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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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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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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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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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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