Thomas Paine Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
But from the errors of other nations let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity - to begin government at the right end.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
A government or an administration, who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and consequently has nothing to conceal;
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.