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Thomas Paine Quotes


War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

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

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.