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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.
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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
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.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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.
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.
There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
