Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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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 prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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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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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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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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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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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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