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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Character is much easier kept than recovered. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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