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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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.
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.
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.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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.
