Thomas Paine Quotes

Man is not the enemy of Man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do there with.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the bowers of paradise.