He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
THOMAS PAINEIt is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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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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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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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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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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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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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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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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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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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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