Quote by Thomas Paine
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. – Thomas Paine

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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine

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He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. – Thomas Paine

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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. – Thomas Paine

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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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A great artist is a great man in a great child. – Victor Hugo

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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when its necessary. – Madeleine Albright

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. – Abraham Lincoln

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. – Voltaire

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? – Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, 1873

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