The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
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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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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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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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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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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 World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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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 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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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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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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