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More Quotes by Thomas Paine
Government is best which governs least
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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.
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
