Thomas Paine Quotes
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ~Thomas Paine - Purpose
My own mind is my own church. ~Thomas Paine - Churches
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ~Thomas Paine - New Beginning
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value. ~Thomas Paine - Obstacles
Human nature is not of itself vicious. ~Thomas Paine - Human Nature
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine - Freedom
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. ~Thomas Paine - Character
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. ~Thomas Paine - Causes
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. ~Thomas Paine - Patriotism
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ~Thomas Paine - Thoughts and Thinking
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ~Thomas Paine - Integrity
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ~Thomas Paine - Value
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. ~Thomas Paine - Emotions
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine - Deeds and Good Deeds
These are the times that try men's souls. ~Thomas Paine - Crisis
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ~Thomas Paine - Government
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ~Thomas Paine - Belief
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. ~Thomas Paine - Nicknames
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. ~Thomas Paine - Thoughts and Thinking
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place. ~Thomas Paine - Citizenship
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ~Thomas Paine - Adversity
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same. ~Thomas Paine - Causes
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. ~Thomas Paine - Liberty
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part. ~Thomas Paine - Democracy
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. ~Thomas Paine - Creeds
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. ~Thomas Paine - Bible
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. ~Thomas Paine - War
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ~Thomas Paine - Religion
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. ~Thomas Paine - Appreciation
Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine - Character
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ~Thomas Paine - Suspicion
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. ~Thomas Paine - Religion
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. ~Thomas Paine - Churches
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~Thomas Paine - Questions
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. ~Thomas Paine - Freedom
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ~Thomas Paine - Smile
The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. ~Thomas Paine - Glory
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ~Thomas Paine - Posterity
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ~Thomas Paine - Moderation
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. ~Thomas Paine - Hypocrisy
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ~Thomas Paine - Moderation
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