For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
THOMAS PAINEThe slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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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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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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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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