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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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.
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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.
