Thomas Paine Quotes

• Man is not the enemy of Man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

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  The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government.

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  To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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• Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself – that is my doctrine.

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• The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

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• As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do there with.

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• Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the bowers of paradise.

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• These are the times that try men’s souls. 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.

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations is as shocking as it is true.

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• The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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• All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

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• One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

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• Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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• Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

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• 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.

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• Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying.

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• 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.

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• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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Thomas Paine (74)

Birth:	29th January, 1737
Death:	8th June, 1809
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Activist, Author, Theorist

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