Thomas Paine

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  As quoted in The Crisis No. IV (12 September 1777)

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• He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.

  First Principles of Government (1795)

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  “The Crisis” (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776), no. 1, in Moncure D. Conway, ed., The Writings of Thomas Paine (1894), vol. 1, p. 170.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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