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People Quotes by Thomas Paine
- Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
- 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…
- I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf,…
- No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or…
- Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would…
- I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will…
- 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…
- 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…
- Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
- Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
- We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed…
- All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous…
- Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
- To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle