An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINEOur greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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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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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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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 harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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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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