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• The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Trust, Motivation, Mistake

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.3

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• The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Violence, Foxes

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.

  Thomas Paine

  Taken, Ideas, Taxes

  Thomas Paine (1792). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Reuolution. By Thomas Paine ... Part 1. [-second!: Rights of man; part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine ..”, p.60

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• Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Country, Freedom

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Rights of Man”, p.278, Broadview Press

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• Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

  Thomas Paine

  Wish, Liberty

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.141, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The balance of power is the scale of peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Balance, Second Amendment, Arms

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

  Thomas Paine

  Political, Politics, Wells

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.51

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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.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

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• The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Pride, Men

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.232, Rowman & Littlefield

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• War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Gambling, Government

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• To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

  Thomas Paine

  Nobility, Manly

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.288, Library of America

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• The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Mean, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.204

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• Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Exercise, Government

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.104

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• What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Believe, Religion

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• We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Too Much, Separation

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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• The more we bestow the richer we become.

  Thomas Paine

  Conservative

  Thomas Paine (1797). “The Works of Thomas Paine”, p.164

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• Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Country, Mean

  Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.4, Madison & Adams Press

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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.

  Thomas Paine

  Heart, Soul, Trying

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.116, Rowman & Littlefield

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• One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Real, Party

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

  Thomas Paine

  4th Of July, Government, Evil

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

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• When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Political

  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.310

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• Virtue is not hereditary.

  Thomas Paine

  Virtue, Hereditary

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.34, e-artnow

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• Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion, World, Christianity

  Thomas Paine, Philip Sheldon Foner (1993). “The life and major writings of Thomas Paine”, Citadel Pr

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