55 Quotations by Thomas Paine
- 1. A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
- 2. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and ra ...
- 3. A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; b ...
- 4. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other ...
- 5. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- 6. Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
- 7. Character is much easier kept than recovered.
- 8. Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- 9. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which th ...
- 10. Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice ...
- 11. From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extor ...
- 12. Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself -- that is my doctrine.
- 13. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it ...
- 14. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viola ...
- 15. He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violat ...
- 16. Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- 17. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi ...
- 18. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek chur ...
- 19. I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the fl ...
- 20. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl ...
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