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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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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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It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
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Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
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His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.
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My country is wherever liberty lives.
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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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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
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And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.
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If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
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Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
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For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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