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Nation Quotes by Thomas Paine
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
- A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its…
- 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 little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
- 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…
- Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly…
- Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor…
- I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns.…
- ...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
- He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
- Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
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