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End Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and…
- Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,…
- Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here…
- The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult…
- The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which…
- Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during…
- 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…
- It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are…
- War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain,…
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