We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
THOMAS PAINEOur greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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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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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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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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