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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value....
• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Thomas Paine
• Man, were he not corrupted by Governments, is naturally the friend of Man, and that human nature is not of itself vicious.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• My mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine
• The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 135...
• A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. -- Thomas Paine
• Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. -- Thomas Paine
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself....
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself....