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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.
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 greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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 mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
Government is best which governs least
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
