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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Government is best which governs least
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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.
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.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
