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.
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.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
Government is best which governs least
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
