More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
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.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
