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Values Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land…
- Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor…
- One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty…
- If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that…
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a…
- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything…
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