Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
THOMAS PAINEThe slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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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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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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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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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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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
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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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Virtue is not hereditary.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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