The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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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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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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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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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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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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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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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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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