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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

Thomas Paine

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Character Easy Recovery
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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Easy Politics See Slave Virtue
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Angel Character God Man Reputation Thinking Woman
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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Appearance Habit Reason Time Wrong
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Angry Principle Vice Virtue
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Enemy Fight Greatness Oneself Philosophy
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Constitution Government Power Right
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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Equality Opposition Place Right
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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Confidence Government Man Necessary Power
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Man Support
Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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Body Government Man Right Togetherness Trust
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Government Greedy Hands Organization
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
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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Fear Human Invention Power Profit Religion
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

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