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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
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.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
