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Rights Quotes by Thomas Paine
- It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
- As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who…
- 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…
- Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of…
- Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of…
- The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
- Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
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