The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
THOMAS PAINEThose who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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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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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 those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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