QUOTES by Thomas Paine
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"Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part."
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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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"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."
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"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe"
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord"
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value."
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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
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"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."
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"[The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any."
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"A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve"
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"The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick."
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