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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.
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 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.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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.
