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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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.
