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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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.
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.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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.
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.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
