Famous Quotes by Thomas Paine

  • Character is much easier kept than recovered. More
  • What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. More
  • I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice,... More
  • I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek... More
  • It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has... More
  • It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does... More
  • All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no... More
  • Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. More
  • As to you, sir, treacherous to private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the... More
  • Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. More
  • To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy... More
  • In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget... More
  • Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary... More
  • Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the... More
  • When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. More
  • Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of... More
  • These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in... More
  • Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping... More
  • Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he... More
  • He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against... More
  • To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to... More
  • Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous... More
  • The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his... More
  • The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. More
  • Alas! While your ambitious vanity is unceasingly laboring to cover the earth with statues, with... More
  • My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. More
  • He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of... More
  • Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular... More

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