50 Thomas Paine Quotes the Author of Common Sense
– 50 Thomas Paine Quotes –
Here are 50 Thomas Paine quotes you’ll definitely love. He was an American writer whose “Common Sense” and other writings influenced the American Revolution and helped pave the way for the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Paine Common Sense Quotes
Below are some of the 50 Thomas Paine quotes in different categories:
1. Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
2. Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
3. Common sense will tell us, that power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
4. The more men have to lose, the less willing they are to venture.
5. Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.
6. Expedience and right are different things.
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7. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
8 Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
9. The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
10. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
American Revolution Quotes
Below are some of the 50 Thomas Paine quotes:
11. The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.
12. We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth.
13. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.
14. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
15. 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 their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that 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.
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16. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; ’tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
17. 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.
18. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
19. 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. Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
Quotes about Religion
2o. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me as no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
21. All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
22. word of God is the creation we behold and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
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23. It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
24. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
25. When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness.
When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government.
Awaken Quotes
26. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.
27. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question.
28. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
29. My mind is my own church.
30. Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine’s Famous Quotes
31. Human nature is not of itself vicious.
32. 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.
33. It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
34. 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 Quotes
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
38. He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. Persecution is not an original feature in any religion, but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Revolution Quotes
42. Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.
43. As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully.
In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.
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44. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
45. It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God
46. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
47. The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
When Thomas Paine Writes
48. To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
49. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; therefore, it would be strange indeed if so celestial I should not highly rate an article as freedom.
50. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but, moderation in principle is always a vice.
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