Thomas Paine Quotes About Motivation
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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Time makes more converts than reason.
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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My mind is my own church.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
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'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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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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These are the times that try men's souls.
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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