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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Funny
4thOfJuly
Medicine
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Trust
Men
Accountability
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Truth
Political
Honest
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Names
Causes
Tyranny
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Men
Errors
Duty
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.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Country
People
Matter
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Fear
Police
Complaining
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.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Exercise
Government
Limits
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Taken
Rights
Perfect
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.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Love
Summer
Country
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Motivation
Ignorance
Knowledge
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
SelfEsteem
Fighting
People
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Children
Trouble
MyTime
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Tyrants
Democracy
Dare
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.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Honesty
Integrity
Believe
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Men
Opportunity
Knowing
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Men
Thinking
Slavery
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.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Atheist
Philosophy
Men
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Men
Class
Two
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Government
Political
Ignorant
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