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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.

Thomas Paine

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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Appearance Habit Reason Time Wrong
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
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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Creation God Goodness Happiness Hypocrisy Practice Service
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Administration Argument Death Medicine Person Reason
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Government Ignorance Kind Man Trade
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Himself Learning Person Teacher
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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Expectation Justice Madness Mercy Murder Trick Violence War Wolf
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.
THOMAS PAINE

Belief Creation Existence Happiness Himself Reason Time Unity Universe Wonderful
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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Book Existence Reading
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Community Himself Leadership
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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People Reason Shock Surprise
Government is best which governs least.
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Government Politics Rule
Virtue is not hereditary.
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Inheritance One Liner Virtue
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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Army Principle Soldier
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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Heart Necessary Soul
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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Crime Ignorance Knowledge Responsibility

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