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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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.
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.
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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!
