More Quotes by Thomas Paine
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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.
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
