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A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.
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 on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.
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I believe in one God, and no more and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
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Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will.
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How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.
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It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.
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When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
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I believe in one God, and no more and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
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The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
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The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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