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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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 (Thomas Paine Quotes)
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information (Thomas Paine Quotes)
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation (Thomas Paine Quotes)
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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 (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security (Thomas Paine Quotes)
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all (Thomas Paine Quotes)
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it (Thomas Paine Quotes)
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim (Thomas Paine Quotes)
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The protection of a man’s person is more sacred than the protection of his property (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The right of voting for representatives, is the primary right by which other rights are protected (Thomas Paine Quotes)
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case (Thomas Paine Quotes)