A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineRead
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of fighting for freedom and justice rather than domination.
Thomas Paineβs quote reflects the noble pursuit of liberating others and creating a society where integrity and honesty can thrive. It is a call to action, highlighting the moral obligation to resist oppression and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live with dignity in a free environment.
In practice
In a speech advocating for civil rights, this quote could underscore the necessity of fighting against oppression.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I'm exhausted.
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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