Top 25 Quotes by Thomas Paine of 526 - Page 11

My mind is my own church.

Motivation, Mind, Church

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

Believe, This Life, Founding Fathers Atheist

The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.

Thomas Paine

Children, Couple, School

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous . . . let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

Thomas Paine

Men, Civilization, Names

Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.558, e-artnow

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

Thomas Paine

Motivation, Men, Teach

Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.192, Xist Publishing

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Thomas Paine

Murder, Founding Fathers Religion, Cruelty

Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.822, Library of America

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Thomas Paine

Government, Design, Inability

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.16, Penguin

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

Thomas Paine

Law, Generations, Succeed

Thomas Paine (1856). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”

The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.

Thomas Paine

Wise, Heart, Animal

Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.64, Penguin

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered.

Thomas Paine

Art, Simple, Government

Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.9, Library of America

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Thomas Paine

Death, Dying, Moments

Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

Thomas Paine

Vanity, Age, Generations

Thomas Paine (1996). “Rights of Man”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

Thomas Paine

Believe, Religion, Resurrection

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

Thomas Paine

Littles, Too Much, Revolution

Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

Thomas Paine

Whales, Ideas, Miracle

Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.46, e-artnow

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

Thomas Paine

Government, Dresses, Innocence

Common Sense (1776)

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

Thomas Paine

Fear, Mutual Love, Links

Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.17

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

Thomas Paine

Sun, Revolution, Causes

Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.14, Ravenio Books

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.

Thomas Paine

Jesus, Believe, Character

Thomas Paine (1858). “The works of Thomas Paine: a hero in the American revolution”, p.272

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

Motivation, Patriotic, People

Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.547, Library of America

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.

Thomas Paine

Lying, Believe, Book

Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.450, e-artnow

Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.

Thomas Paine

Fire, Opposites, Religion

Thomas Paine (1859). “Complete Works”, p.89

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

Thomas Paine

Home, Choices, Mind

Thomas Paine (1908). “Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker”

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

Thomas Paine

Race, Earth, Common

Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.398, Library of America

I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.

Thomas Paine

Country, Spring, Your Side

Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.372, Library of America

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