Quotes By Thomas Paine BACK
- The mind once enlightened cannot
- Public credit is suspicion asleep.
- I wish most anxiously to
- Natural rights are those which
- Whence arose all the horrid
- Oppression is often the consequence,
- From whence, then, could arise
- The more acquisitions the government
- To reason with goverments, as
- Man did not make the
- I consider the war of
- All the tales of miracles,
- Rights are not gifts from
- Science is the true theology.
- Now is the seedtime of
- Reason obeys itself; and ignorance
- The right of voting for
- The moral duty of man
- Men did not make the
- Arms, like laws, discourage and
- It is not because a
- Titles do not count with
- Whenever we read the obscene
- Lay then the axe to
- Moderation in temper is always
- Human nature is not of
- Of more worth is one
- If there was ever a
- We still find the greedy
- Calumny is a vice of
- The error of those who
- The choicest gift of God
- The NT, compared with the
- Government, even in its best
- Reputation is what men and
- A man will pass better
- Men who are sincere in
- I would give worlds, if
- The Book of Job and
- Public money ought to be
- Government, like dress, is the
- If, to expose the fraud
- The Bible is a book
- Money, when considered as the
- What more does man want
- It is often said in
- Those who knew Benjamin Franklin
- Government is a necessary evil
- Mutual fear is a principal
- But there is another and
- Is it more probable that
- Society in every state is
- Accustom a people to believe
- Religion is a history of
- I die in perfect composure
- We repose an unwise confidence
- Thomas did not believe the
- What we obtain too cheap,
- Practical religion consists in doing
- All this [Paul's writing]
- It is always to be
- Aristocracy has a tendency to
- But in addition to all
- I draw my idea of
- Mystery is the antagonist of
- Now, which am I to
- Aristocracy is kept up by
- Immediate necessity makes many things
- When men yield up the
- How necessary it is at
- There are two distinct classes
- The story of the whale
- The strength and power of
- The Allwise Creator hath been
- No nation ought to be
- The story of Jesus Christ
- I prefer peace. But if
- It is for the good
- Revelation is necessarily limited to
- Governments arise either out of
- Ah, reader, put thy trust
- Had the news of salvation
- The intimacy which is contracted
- The state of a king
- One would think that a
- Those who expect to reap
- Not a place upon earth
- No man is prejudiced in
- The animals to whom nature
- Peace, which costs nothing, is
- Yet this is trash that
- It was needless, after this,
- Those words, temperate and moderate,
- The declaration which says that
- We hold the moral obligation
- It is a general idea,
- In the early ages of
- The Christian system of religion
- It is important that we
- The stupid texts of the
- When it shall be said
- War ought to be no
- I disbelieve all holy men
- In the progress of politics,
- Every Tory is a coward;
- They took care to represent
- Man cannot make, or invent,
- The whole religious complexion of
- It is not in numbers,
- Men who look upon themselves
- Priests and conjurors are of
- This new world hath been
- Paper money is like dram
- The study of theology, as
- It is not a charity
- That there are men in
- It is far better that
- When the tongue or the
- Every science has for its
- Character is much easier kept
- Commerce is no other than
- The United States of America
- Belief in a cruel God
- All national institutions of churches,
- It is necessary to the
- To be nobly wrong is
- Could the straggling thoughts of
- Liberty cannot be purchased by
- When it becomes necessary to
- The protection of a man'
- Customs will often outlive the
- Therefore we say that a
- If those to whom power
- Titles are but nicknames, and
- Not all the treasures of
- Infidelity does not consist in
- A single legislature, on account
- Prejudice will fall in a
- To establish any mode to
- Wherefore, security being the true
- The New Testament rests itself
- The story of the redemption
- But such is the irresistable
- There exists in man a
- On this question of war,
- They may be all comprehended
- Of all the tyrannies that
- I am sensible that he
- Where there are no distinctions
- These proceedings may at first
- Nothing, they say is more
- A man does not serve
- A world of little cares
- The Bible: a history of
- The most formidable weapon against
- Prophesying is lying professionally.
- It is unpleasant to see
- For the fate of Charles
- We feel something like respect
- A share in two revolutions
- Human language is local and
- I have as little superstition
- Change of ministers amounts to
- The danger to which the
- War is the gambling table
- To live with our enemies
- When all other rights are
- The trade of governing has
- Let them call me rebel,
- The fable of Christ and
- The circumstances of the world
- Prejudice, like the spider, makes
- I bring reason to your
- The more we bestow the
- The Vatican is a dagger
- The individuals themselves each in
- The continual whine of lamenting
- Heaven knows how to put
- To argue with a man
- The continually progressive change to
- Whatever has a tendency to
- EVERY national church or religion
- These are the times that
- It is a fool only,
- War involves in its progress
- The greatest characters the world
- Better fare hard with good
- The age of ignorance commenced
- Small islands, not capable of
- Civil rights are those which
- The real man smiles in
- Every person of learning is
- I know not whether taxes
- Every age and generation must
- In Deism our reason and
- The Bill of Rights should
- An avidity to punish is
- Youth is the seed time
- It is a position not
- The harder the conflict, the
- A man may write himself
- People in general know not
- I believe in one God,
- Some writers have so confounded
- As property, honestly obtained, is
- Time makes more converts than
- The Christian church has set
- The greatest remedy for anger
- It matters not where you
- Wrong cannot have a legal
- One of the evils of
- Some people can be reasoned
- It can only be by
- If any generation of men
- The American constitutions were to
- government says swift is a
- The case, however, is, that
- There is something in corruption
- Our greatest enemies, the ones
- There is a natural firmness
- A government of our own
- The Church was resolved to
- You cannot undermine police authority
- Evils, like poisons, have their
- The Sun never shined on
- For freemen like brothers agree;
- In the first part of '
- A bad cause will ever
- Government has no right to
- It will be proper to
- Toleration is not the opposite
- If the present generation, or
- And as a man, who
- Let a crown be placed
- I detest the Bible as
- There is a happiness in
- Europe, and not England, is
- The Deist needs none of
- There is something absurd in
- Freedom had been hunted round
- Here then is the origin
- As to religion, I hold
- And as to you, Sir,
- He that would make his
- If I do not believe
- We have it in our
- In a general view, there
- There now remain only a
- Christianity is the strangest religion
- To believe that God created
- Man is not the enemy
- Compassion, the fairest associate of
- The Christian religion is derogatory
- The Christian religion and Masonry
- The nearer any disease approaches
- Man did not enter society
- A government on the principles
- The prejudice of unfounded belief
- A little matter will move
- The times that tried men'
- That which is now called
- What is it the Bible
- To possess ourselves of a
- Cultivation is at least one
- These are the days that
- Take away from Genesis the
- The more men have to
- The artificial noble shrinks into
- To take away (voting) is
- But there are times when
- The most extraordinary of all
- It would be more consistent
- If there must be trouble,
- For all men being originally
- And when we view a
- It is a fraud of
- A long habit of not
- Truth never envelops itself in
- And this manner of speaking
- That God cannot lie, is
- Beware the greedy hand of
- From the errors of other
- Ye that dare oppose, not
- There is something in meanness
- Persecution is not an original
- When my country, into which
- No falsehood is so fatal
- To argue with a person
- One good schoolmaster is of
- The most horrible wickedness and
- There is no greater tyranny
- The duty of man is
- The final event to himself
- The abilities of man must
- The birthday of a new
- O ye that love mankind!
- The true greatness of a
- If anything had or could
- It is the madness of
- Let it be told to
- all churches whether jewish christian
- The essential psychological requirement of
- To bring the matter to
- In the following pages I
- There are matters in the
- Any system of religion that
- Government is best which governs
- Wisdom is not the purchase
- The creation is the Bible
- The graceful pride of truth
- Is it because you are
- Arms discourage and keep the
- It requires but a very
- Tears may soothe the wounds
- It is painful to behold
- The World is my country,
- As priestcraft was always the
- All Of Us Might Wish
- It is not a God,
- Society is produced by our
- Let the world see that
- What is called a republic,
- When I see throughout this
- Call to mind the sentiments
- The balance of power is
- It has been the political
- When we are planning for
- The guilt of a government
- It is only by the
- When an objection cannot be
- Common sense will tell us,
- Taxes were not raised to
- And to read the Bible
- When a man has so
- It is, I believe, impossible
- I call not upon a
- An army of principles will
- All men can understand what
- The art of publicity is
- The most detestable wickedness, the
- Politics and self interest have
- The first was a government
- He, who survives his reputation,
- Suspicion and persecution are weeds
- Government ought to be as
- But though every created thing
- It is a faculty of
- The Christian religion begins with
- My country is the world,
- Independence is my happiness, and
- From such beginnings of governments,
- My mind is my own
- We ought therefore to suspect
- From the east to the
- The obscene and vulgar stories
- The Almighty implanted in us
- As to the book called
- The people of America are
- Panics, in some cases, have
- It is an affront to
- Wisdom degenerates in governments as
- The mere man of pleasure
- We have every opportunity and
- The reformation was preceded by
- The burden of the national
- Nothing but heaven is impregnable
- In reviewing the history of
- For though the flame of
- Great part of that order
- It is with a pious
- Where knowledge is a duty,
- When I contemplate the natural
- Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
- It is the object only
- The accumulation of great wealth
- A constitution, therefore, is to
- The instant formal government is
- We do not admit the
- Virtue is not hereditary.
- The New Testament, they tell
- Universal empire is the prerogative
- How strangely is antiquity treated!
- Action and care will in
- Our present condition is, Legislation
- It is error only, and
- It has been the scheme
- The mind, in discovering truths,
- The cunning of the fox
- The representative system of government
- Everything wonderful in appearance has
- He who is the author
- tis the business of little
- Whatever is my right as
- Men should not petition for
- The idea of hereditary legislators
- Each government accuses the other
- It is the fable of
- But if objects for gratitude
- All the religions known in
- No country can be called
- Every religion is good that
- We must be compelled to
- My country is wherever liberty
- It is from the power
- Could the peaceable principle of
- He is not affected by
- It is the direction and
- Commerce diminishes the spirit, both
- Kill the king but spare
- The countries the most famous
- As my object was not
- To say that any people
- It is from the Bible
- Everything that is right or
- It is from our enemies
- I would not dare so
- Death is not the monarch
- I had come to realize
- The slavery of fear had
- Of all the systems of
- Is it not a species
- Titles are like a magicians
- I do not believe that
- There never did, there never
- Government without a constitution, is
- We can only reason from
- The period of debate is
- Mingling religion with politics may
- One of the strongest natural
- That which we obtain too
- The aristocracy are not the
- There is existing in man,
- His [Jesus'] historians, having brought
- It is unnatural that a
- The Grecians and Romans were
- The bible is such a
- We fight not to enslave,
- In free countries the law
- In a chariot of light
- Suspicion is the companion of
- I have never made it
- The end of all political
- A Constitution is not the
- A thirst for power is
- Our citizenship in the United
- When authors and critics talk
- Government is not a trade
- The greatest tyrannies are always
- A body of men holding
- He that rebels against reason
- Thus commerce, though in itself
- Uncritical reverence for the Founding
- I have always strenuously supported
- A nation under a well
- I fear not, I see
- Civilization, or that which is
- Ignorance is of a peculiar
- What at first was plunder
- A constitution defines and limits
- But where, says some, is
- Before anything can be reasoned
- When extraordinary power and extraordinary
- It is not a field
- It may perhaps be said
- Each of those churches shows
- It has been the error
- The sublime and the ridiculous
- It is not the nature
- I die content, I die
- Every proprietor owes to the
- Reason and Ignorance, the opposites
- He who takes nature for
- The cause of America is
- The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying
- He who dares not offend
- Man must go back to