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Pamphlet · Political literature

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

The American Crisis · 1776

★ 1.2

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 1.3

Pamphlet · Political literature

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

1770

★ 1.9

Pamphlet · Religious literature · Philosophical literature

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again.

The Age of Reason · 1795

★ 2.0

Pamphlet · Political literature

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

1776

★ 2.1

Pamphlet · Political literature

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

1915

★ 3.5

Pamphlet · Political literature

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

1770

★ 3.5

Pamphlet · Political literature

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

1770

★ 3.5

Pamphlet · Political literature

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public, to be the most anxious for its welfare.

1769

★ 3.6

Pamphlet · Political literature

The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and the executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

1776

★ 3.6

Pamphlet · Political literature

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates · 1649

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

1649

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

1770

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Common Sense · 1776

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

Common Sense · 1776

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

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

Common Sense · 1776

★ 3.8

Pamphlet · Political literature

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day.

The Crisis · 1776

★ 3.8

Pamphlet · Religious literature · Philosophical literature

Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system.

The Age of Reason · 1794

★ 3.8

Pamphlet · Political literature

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

1795

★ 3.8

Pamphlet · Political literature

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Common Sense · 1776

★ 3.9

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