Thomas Paine Quotes
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A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is!
— Thomas Paine
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
— Thomas Paine
I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
— Thomas Paine
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
— Thomas Paine
Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.
— Thomas Paine
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
— Thomas Paine
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. - THOMAS PAINE
— Dinty W. Moore
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order ...
— Thomas Paine
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
— Thomas Paine
Kill the king but spare the man.
— Thomas Paine
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
— Mike Crapo
I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
— Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
— Thomas Paine
Give me liberty, or give me death.
— Thomas Paine
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
— Thomas Paine
I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
— Thomas Paine
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day
— Thomas Paine
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
— Thomas Paine
The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth
— Thomas Paine
The birthday of a new world is at hand.
— Thomas Paine
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
— Thomas Paine
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
— Thomas Paine
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.
— Thomas Paine
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
— Thomas Paine
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.
— Thomas Paine
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
— Thomas Paine
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
— Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value.
— Thomas Paine
The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
— Thomas Paine
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
— Thomas Paine
Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.
— Thomas Paine
Most wise men, in their private sentiments, have ever treated hereditary right with contempt; yet
— Thomas Paine
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
— Thomas Paine
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
— Thomas Paine
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
— Thomas Paine
I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.
— Thomas Paine
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
— Thomas Paine
Titles do not count with posterity.
— Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
— Thomas Paine
There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.
— Thomas Paine
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
— Thomas Paine
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
— Thomas Paine
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.
— Thomas Paine
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
— Thomas Paine
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine
— Christopher Hitchens
monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.
— Thomas Paine
In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird
— Thomas Paine
A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.
— Thomas Paine
To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
— Thomas Paine
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.
— Thomas Paine
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
— Thomas Paine
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
— Thomas Paine
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
— Thomas Paine
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
— Thomas Paine
If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
— Thomas Paine
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
— Thomas Paine
