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"It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time." - Copy to Clipboard
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-- Thomas Paine
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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."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue."
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"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."
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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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