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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Book by Thomas Paine · 3 quotes · Government, Politics, Men

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“Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”