If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have 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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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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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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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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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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