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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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.
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.
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.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
