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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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.
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.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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.
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
