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Thomas Paine16 quotes
But where says some is the king of America?...In America the law is king. — Thomas Paine · 1776If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Thomas Paine · 1776The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. — Thomas Paine · 1776When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. — Thomas Paine · 1776I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. — Thomas Paine · 1794The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty. — Thomas Paine · 1794All 16 quotes →Karl Marx8 quotes
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx · 1848The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx · 1848A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism. — Karl Marx · 1848In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end. — Karl Marx · 1848The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. — Karl Marx · 1848All 8 quotes →Edmund Burke5 quotes
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us. — Edmund Burke · 1770It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public, to be the most anxious for its welfare. — Edmund Burke · 1769We 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. — Edmund Burke · 1770To 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. — Edmund Burke · 1770I 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. — Edmund Burke · 1770John Adams3 quotes
The happiness of society is the end of government. — John Adams · 1776The 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. — John Adams · 1776Fear is the foundation of most governments. — John Adams · 1776John Milton2 quotes
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton · 1649No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. — John Milton · 1649James Connolly1 quote
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly · 1915James Madison1 quote
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. — James Madison · 1795