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• The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Thinking, Slavery

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

  Thomas Paine

  People, Ethics, Morality

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.541, e-artnow

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• Men should not petition for rights, but take them

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Should

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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• If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Tolerance, Prove

  Thomas Paine (1859). “Complete Works”

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• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, War, 4th Of July

  Common Sense (1776)

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

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• Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, Crime, Duty

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.136, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

  Thomas Paine

  Education, Dark, Mind

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.340

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• It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Careers, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Political and Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Paine ...”

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• There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Class, Two

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis”, p.281

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• Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

  Thomas Paine

  Wickedness, Age Of Reason, Sincerely

  Thomas Paine (1934). “The Works of Thomas Paine: His Epoch-making Writings in Religion, Government, Human Rights and International Relations”, New York : .H. Wise

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• When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.1

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• The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.

  Thomas Paine

  People, Age, Littles

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• It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Numbers, Unity

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.36, Library of America

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• Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Order, Apples

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• Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Vices

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792) See Goldwater 3

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• An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.557, e-artnow

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• It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Belief, Murder

  Thomas Paine (2011). “The Age of Reason”, p.119, Broadview Press

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• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Peace

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.96, Penguin

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• To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Voting, Slavery

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• We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

  Thomas Paine

  Change, Motivation, 4th Of July

  Common Sense appendix (1776)

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• A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

  Thomas Paine

  Trust, Government, People

  Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (2008). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.238, Oxford University Press

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• Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.

  Thomas Paine

  Exercise, Men, Rights

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.102

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