I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
THOMAS PAINEIt 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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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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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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