More Quotes by Thomas Paine
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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.
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
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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.
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.
