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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
Government is best which governs least
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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 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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
