More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Government is best which governs least
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 body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
