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

Thomas Paine

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
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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Easy Government Greatness Ignorance Influence Kind Man Reason
To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Man Slave Vote
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Protection Representation Right Vote
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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Commitment Eat Kind Man Murder People Religion Sin Strange
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Character Easy Recovery
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Perfection Rebel Right
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Appearance Habit Right Thinking Wrong
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
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
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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Equality Opposition Place Right
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Country Goodness Kind Man Religion World
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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Body Government Man Right Togetherness Trust
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Fear Power Resistance Strength

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