To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
THOMAS PAINEIt is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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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.
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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