Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Quote by Thomas Paine

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If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a...

If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a...

Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and...

Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and...

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

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

But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person,...

But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person,...

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for...

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for...

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war...

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war...

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom...

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom...

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it...

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it...

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of...

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of...

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their...

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their...

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are...

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are...

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the...

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the...

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress,...

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress,...

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom...

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom...

America is addicted to wars of distraction

America is addicted to wars of distraction

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and...

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and...