Accountability Quote by Thomas Paine

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” quote by Thomas Paine — Download Open image

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

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“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”

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The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief…

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

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“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

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But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

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I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

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It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

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Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;…

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