More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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.
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
