00:00These are the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine
00:07The mind once enlightened cannot again become ignorant. Thomas Paine
00:15Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
00:27The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine
00:36Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the
00:43more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine
00:49To argue with a man who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
00:55Thomas Paine
00:59What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly, it is dear that only has value. Thomas Paine
01:09The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine
01:19My opinion is that the liberty of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and it ought
01:25not, by any means, to be restrained.
01:29Thomas Paine
01:33It is not in the nature of any government to be just, or to be free, but to be continually
01:38encroaching.
01:40Thomas Paine
01:44It is the curse of the kingly office that it oppresses all, and no man can be a king without
01:49being a tyrant.
01:51Thomas Paine
01:55We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
01:59Thomas Paine
02:03The sun never said a bad word to the moon, yet it always comes out from her hiding place.
02:09Thomas Paine
02:13The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
02:18Thomas Paine
02:22That which is right is also easy.
02:25The people have a natural right to liberty.
02:29Thomas Paine
02:33To deny a thing is not to disprove it.
02:36Thomas Paine
02:40An island is a world within itself, and can be one in itself.
02:45Thomas Paine
02:49He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy's liberty, for while he guards his enemy's
02:55liberty, he provides that his own shall be safe.
02:59Thomas Paine
03:03The vanity of the world leads to the vanity of the mind.
03:08Thomas Paine
03:11No country can be governed by laws that are not generally understood.
03:16Thomas Paine
03:18The vanity of the world leads to the vanity of the world, and can be one in itself, and can
03:19be one in itself, and can be one in itself.
03:20He that's a institution of the world, and can be one in itself, and can be one in itself.
