For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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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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Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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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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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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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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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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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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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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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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