More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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.
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.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
