More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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 mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
