#Quote
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.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
