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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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.
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.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
