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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
