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Quote by Thomas Paine
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. – Thomas Paine

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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. – Thomas Paine

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. – Thomas Paine

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. – Bertrand Russell

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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. – Lloyd Douglas

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! – May Sarton

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The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. – David Wilkerson

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The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the worlds economy hostage. – Shimon Peres

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One persons religion is another persons cult. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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…rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky. – Rumi

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And thats my religion. – Abraham Lincoln

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