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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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.
