Thomas Paine Quotes
Time makes more converts than reason.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression.
It is the right of every man to think as he pleases about religion.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Time makes more converts than reason.
Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
We have it in our power to change the world over again.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
The most formidable weapon against errors of any kind is reason.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
I would rather have a honest enemy than a false friend.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
We have it in our power to make the world over again.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
I have always strenuously supported the right of every person to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
It is repugnant to reason, to the universal order of things.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
I would rather have a honest enemy than a false friend.