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Cases Quotes by Thomas Paine
- 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…
- Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it…
- No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case…
- In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government…
- Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them…
- The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for…
- There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any…
- Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity…
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- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security… — Michele Bachmann
- They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an… — Ginger Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James A. Baldwin
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them… — Dave Barry
- To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil