Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

- Thomas Paine

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

- 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 legisla…

- Thomas Paine

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

- Thomas Paine

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 gov…

- Thomas Paine

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

- Thomas Paine

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; b…

- Thomas Paine

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

- Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

- Thomas Paine