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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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.
Government is best which governs least
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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.
