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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

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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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Angel Character God Man Reputation Thinking Woman
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength
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
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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Extraordinary Generation Government Kind Pay Power
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
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
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Change Man Myself Opinion Present Right Slave Support
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
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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Creation God Goodness Happiness Hypocrisy Practice Service
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Enemy Establishment Himself Liberty Oppression Reach Security Violate

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

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