More Quotes by Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Government is best which governs least
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
