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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.
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Ignorance is of a peculiar nature once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
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Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.
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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
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Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
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The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.
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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.
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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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The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.
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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.
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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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