Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Thomas Paine
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of…
Thomas Paine
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by…
Thomas Paine
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas Paine
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
Thomas Paine
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…
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Thomas Paine
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine
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.
Thomas Paine
My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
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
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine
That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.