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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
