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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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.
Government is best which governs least
