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Thomas Paine Quotes: The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.
         

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.


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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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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.



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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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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.





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