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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
Government is best which governs least
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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.
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.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
