The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
THOMAS PAINEThose who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country’s war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
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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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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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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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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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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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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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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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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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