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[Quote No.55257] Need Area: Friends > General
"A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal." - Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author. Quote from 1805.
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[Quote No.57053] Need Area: Friends > General
"...government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one ..." - Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author. Source: 'Common Sense', February 14, 1776.
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[Quote No.57963] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] 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." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.59478] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The social contract and limited government:] A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.63674] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government versus big, powerful government:] When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.64469] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.64846] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.65040] Need Area: Friends > General
"My country is wherever liberty lives. " - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.65441] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defense. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside... Horrid mischief would ensue were (the good) deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become a prey to the strong." - Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author. Source: 1 Writings Of Thomas Paine 56 (M. Conway ed. 1894); 1776, Thoughts on a Defensive War.
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[Quote No.65480] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Limited, small government versus unlimited, big government:] A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government [a social contract between the individuals within a specific area and those they delegate as their representatives to decide and enforce only in specific areas of concern]; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are no other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." - Thomas Paine
Rights of Man [1791]
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[Quote No.66924] Need Area: Friends > General
"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." - Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author.
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[Quote No.67255] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud; bad means are not justified by good ends:] The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.67726] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individuals and the social contract:] It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those who govern and those that are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.68823] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government, even in its best state [small, limited-power - restricted to ensuring only equal, individual, freedom from force and fraud], is but a necessary evil; in its worst state [large, unlimited-power - unrestricted in its aims and means], an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.9179] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value." - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.20650] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." - Thomas Paine
(1737 - 1809) English - American politician and Deistic writer
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[Quote No.43443] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly!" - Thomas Paine
'The Crisis', 1776.
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly." - Thomas Paine

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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph!" - Thomas Paine

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[Quote No.64735] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly!" - Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author December 19, 1776. Source: The American Crisis, No. 1.
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