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Thomas Paine Quotes
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Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
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The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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