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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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.
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
