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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
