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.
THOMAS PAINEBeware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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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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There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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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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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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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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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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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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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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