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“When I contemplate the natural dignity of man, when I feel for the honour and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.”

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

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