More Quotes by Thomas Paine
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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.
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.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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.
