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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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.
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 mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
