Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
THOMAS PAINEReason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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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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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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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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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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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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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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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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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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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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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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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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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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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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The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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