It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
THOMAS PAINEThe 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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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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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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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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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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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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