More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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.
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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.
