Thomas Paine Quotes

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  The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

  Thomas Paine

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  Tags in Reflection, Trouble, Real, Strength

• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expect, Like, Freedom, Men, Blessing

• 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

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Ground, Few, Consequences, Defeat

• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Reputation, Character, Think, Angel

• It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in God

  Tags in Good, Just, Devil

• There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in God, Humanity, Justice

  Tags in Express, Bible, Every, Moral, Matters

• That ideas should spread freely from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creativity

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

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Time, Men

• When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Shadow, Thinking, Men

• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Evil, Reason, Thinking, Ignorance, Mind

• Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Shock, Anything, True, Mind

• There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Produce, Reflection, Own, Thinking, Mind

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vice, Moderation, Good, Virtue, Temper, Thing, Principle

• Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discover, School, Every, Universe, Principle

• An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Army, Soldier, Principles

• Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Good, Every, Know

• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Posterity, Virtue, Planning, Remember

• Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Affect, Tyranny, Mankind

• That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proof, Bible, Advantage, Argument, Lie

• To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Taxes, People, Poverty, Rather, Freedom, Choice

Thomas Paine (74)

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

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