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Thomas Paine Quotes - Page 4

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Pain, Freedom, Patriotic

Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Teacher, Educational, Persons

Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.461, Simon and Schuster

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.

Common Sense, Liberty, Common

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)”, p.63, Library of America

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Peace, War, 4th Of July

"Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

War, Gambling, Government

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Government, People, Constitution

Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.68, Rowman & Littlefield

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Appreciation, Pain, Democracy

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

Character, Self, Political

Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.213, e-artnow

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

Miracle, Needs, Creation

Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.341

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Country, Ignorance, Government

Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.161

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Bible, Religious, Book

Thomas Paine, Thomas ERSKINE (Baron Erskine.) (1797). “A Letter to the Honourable T. Erskine [the Counsel for the Crown] on the prosecution of T. Williams, for publishing"The Age of Reason.".”, p.15

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

Government, Political, Age

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.157, Ravenio Books

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

Wish, Liberty

Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.141, Rowman & Littlefield

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.

People, Age, Littles

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Religion, World, Christianity

Thomas Paine, Philip Sheldon Foner (1993). “The life and major writings of Thomas Paine”, Citadel Pr

EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.

Christian, Jesus, Men

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.6, e-artnow

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.

Party, Exercise, Government

Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.104

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.

Atheist, Heart, Mean

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

Rights, Voting, Representatives

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.724, e-artnow

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

Lying, Eye, Color

Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

Bible, Religious, Faith Religion

Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

4th Of July, Government, Evil

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Trust, Motivation, Mistake

Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.3

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

Men, Too Much, Separation

Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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