More Quotes by Thomas Paine
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
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.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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.
