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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
Government is best which governs least
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
