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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

Thomas Paine

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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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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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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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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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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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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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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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

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