Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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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Government is best which governs least.
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It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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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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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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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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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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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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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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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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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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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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Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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