More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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.
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.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
