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Thomas Paine Quotes - Page 19

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I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

Eye, Ears, Language

Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.55, Cambridge University Press

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Encouraging, Encouragement, Motivation

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Calumny Is, Trying, Vices

Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Fog, Mystery, Invention

Thomas Paine (1818). “The theological works of Thomas Paine”, p.46

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

Self Esteem, Men, Titles

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Sublime, Borders, Ridiculous

Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.158

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason

Writing, Thinking, People

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.

Character, Rose, Democracy

Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.87

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

Tears, May, Heal

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

Evil, Poison, Use

Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.101

To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.

Kings, Jealous, Mean

Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.27, Madison & Adams Press

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

Rebel, Revolutionary, Call Me

"Common Sense: and The American Crisis I".

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.

Government, Principles, Sovereign

Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.73, Madison & Adams Press

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

Disease, Natural, Thirst For Power

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

Two, Purpose, Revolution

Letter to GeorgeWashington, 16 Oct. 1789

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

Errors, Nations

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)”, p.67, Library of America

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

Doors, Temptation, World

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

Religious, Home, Discovery

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.26, Penguin

The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.

Land, Lazy, Males

Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.129

From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?

Men, Our World, Apples

Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.60

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Encouragement, Opportunity, Faces

"Common Sense". Book by Thomas Paine, 1776.

Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.

Heaven, Vices

Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Men, Wife, Judging

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.10, e-artnow

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

Heart, Agony, Hatred

Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.57, e-artnow

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

Men, Soul, World

Thomas Paine (1839). “The Crisis: A Work Written While with the Army of the Revolution, with a View of Stimulating that Patriotic Band to Persevere in Their Glorious Struggle for the Rights of Man”, p.256

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