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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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A government of our own is our natural right and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.
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It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
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Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.
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A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
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A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
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I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered and the easier repaired when disordered.
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From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?
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Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.
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The people of America are a people of property almost every man is a freeholder.
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
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...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
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Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
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Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority perfect equality affords no temptation.
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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
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Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
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