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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.