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Constitution Quotes by Thomas Paine
- It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
- A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a…
- A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced,…
- A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the…
- And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of…
- Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
- A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power…
- The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
- Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
- When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them;…
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