One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
THOMAS PAINEMen should not petition for rights, but take them.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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It 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.
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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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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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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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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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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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