Thomas Paine Quotes About Fear
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
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Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.
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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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