It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment is best which governs least.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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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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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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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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