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Tom Paine

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“An Avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men tostretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He thatwould make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he a establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”


Thomas Paine (1795)

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