The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
THOMAS PAINEThe World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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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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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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