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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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.
