More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.