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Thomas Paine (or Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736][Note 1] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. Saul K. Padover described him as "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".

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A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is!

Democracy, Form, Government, Vile

The balance of power is the scale of peace.

Arms, Balance, Power, Scale, Second Amendment

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

Aristocracy, Family, Injustice, Tyranny

The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.

Choicest, Gift, Gift From God, God, Reason

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

Believe, Calculated, Ensure, Kept, Men, Mysterious Things

The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.

Country, Despise, Dwarf, Dwarves, Men, Noble

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Good, Instructs, Men, Motivation, Teach, Teaches

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.

Battle, Enemy, Ground, Motivation, Pain, Same

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Change, Changing, Freedom, Man, Men, Present

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

Country, Day, Depreciate, Party, Precariousness, Real

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.

Absurdities, Away, Believe, Book, Lies, Lying

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Army, Expression, Heaven, Highly, Price

It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.

Art, Foul, Honor, Mean, Pure, Successful

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

Cause, Causes, Revolution, Shined, Sun, Worth

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

Equal, Gold, Law, Laws, Support

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Children, Contrary, Father, Justice, Moral, Visits

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.

Expire, Flame, Flames, Liberty, Shining, Though

There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.

Buying, Making, Men, Pay, Schemes, Set

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

Color, Corruption, Eye, Jaundiced, Like, Lying

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Inspirational, Positive, Real, Smiles, Strength

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