Thomas Paine Quotes About Property Rights
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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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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; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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These are the times that try men's souls.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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