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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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.
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.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
