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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

Thomas Paine

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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Government Ignorance Nation Politics Support
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
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
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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Light Value Worth
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
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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Creation Existence Faith Greatness Miracle Need Trick
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Action Man Right
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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Administration Argument Atheist Authority Humanity Man Medicine Philosophy Reason Scripture
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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Confidence Government Man Necessary Power
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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Believe Corruption Crime Himself Man Mindset Preparation Prostitution
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Angry Principle Vice Virtue
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
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
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
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 body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Accountable Body Hold Man Trust

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

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