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American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809)
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- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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- Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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- Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
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- Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
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- I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
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- It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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- It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
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- Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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- 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 its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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- The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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- The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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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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- What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
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- When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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- Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
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