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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”

Thomas Paine · Fear

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

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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.

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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

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