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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Government is best which governs least
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
