The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINETo 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.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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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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Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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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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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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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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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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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
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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.
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