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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.
Topic: Cause
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A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Topic: Cause
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Topic: Country
Source: None
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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These are the times that try men's souls.
Topic: Crisis
Source: None
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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. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Topic: Freedom
Source: None
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Topic: Freedom
Source: None
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Topic: Government
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Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Topic: Guilt
Source: None
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. -Thomas Paine.
Topic: Heart-quotes
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Topic: Liberty
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Topic: Moderation
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Man must go back to nature for information.
Topic: Nature
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Topic: Obstacles
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Oppression
Source: None
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My country is the world, and my religion to do good.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Rights of Man (ch. V)
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I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
[Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberte de mon pays.]
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Rights of Man (ch. V)
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Topic: Questions
Source: None
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Topic: Reason
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Topic: Religion
Source: None
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My mind is my own church.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is
difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime
makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the
sublime again.
Topic: Ridicule
Source: The Age of Reason (pt. II)
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It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Topic: Self-respect
Source: None
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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. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Topic: Thinking
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; 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: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: None
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Topic: Victory
Source: None
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Topic: World
Source: None
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