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4th Of July Quotes by Thomas Paine
- When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
- The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
- We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
- Character is much easier kept than recovered.
- 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…
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
- These are the times that try men's souls.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
- To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
- Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
- When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was…
- 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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