Thomas Paine Quotations And Sayings

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“The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.”
– Thomas Paine

“The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any,”
– Thomas Paine

“The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.”
– Thomas Paine

“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.”
– Thomas Paine

“The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.”
– Thomas Paine

“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
– Thomas Paine

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
– Thomas Paine

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
– Thomas Paine

“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”
– Thomas Paine

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
– Thomas Paine

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.”
– Thomas Paine

“The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside.”
– Thomas Paine

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
– Thomas Paine

“The reign of Louis the fourteenth is more distinguished by being the Era of Science and Literature in France than by any other circumstance of those days.”
– Thomas Paine

“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
– Thomas Paine

“The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion.”
– Thomas Paine

“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.”
– Thomas Paine

“The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ‘Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent—of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe. ”
– Thomas Paine

“The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.”
– Thomas Paine

“The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.”
– Thomas Paine

“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.”
– Thomas Paine

“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
– Thomas Paine

“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

“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

“There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood.”
– Thomas Paine

“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required.”
– Thomas Paine

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
– Thomas Paine

“These people are either too superstitiously religious, or too cowardly for arms; they either can not or dare not defend ; their property is open to anyone who has the courage to attack them.”
– Thomas Paine

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
– Thomas Paine

“Time makes more converts than reason.”
– Thomas Paine

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