More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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.
