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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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.
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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
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.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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.
