| Character is much easier kept than recovered. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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| What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. |
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- Thomas Paine |
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