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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.
Government is best which governs least
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 trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
