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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Government is best which governs least
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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.
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.
