"The trade of governing has always been monopolized……" — Thomas Paine
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."
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Thomas Paine
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384 Quotes by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine has 384 quotes on this site.
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective…
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought…
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