More Quotes by Thomas Paine
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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.
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.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
