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"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon." -
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Top 5 quotes from Thomas Paine
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
"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."
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
Top 5 quotes from Thinking
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
"Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account."
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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