More Quotes by Thomas Paine
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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.
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.
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.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
