Thoughts for Independence Day (6)

June 29, 2010
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From Thomas Paine:

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government.

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.

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