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Thomas Paine Quotes - Page 5

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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

Government, Constitution

Thomas Paine (1795). “The Rights of Man: For the Benefit of All Mankind”, p.85

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Bible, Believe, Religion

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Religion, Priests, Trade

Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Money, War, Victory

Thomas Paine (1792). “Rights of Man, Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution... by T. Paine...”

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Supposing That, Islands, Absurd

Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

Believe, Men, Class

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.623, e-artnow

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

Doe, Generations, Succeed

Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.136

Virtue is not hereditary.

Virtue, Hereditary

Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.34, e-artnow

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

War, Violence, Foxes

Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

God, Country, Freedom

Thomas Paine (2011). “Rights of Man”, p.278, Broadview Press

The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

Party, Mean, Men

Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.204

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

Christian, Common Sense, Religion

Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.334

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 any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Atheist, Pain, Fear

Thomas Paine (1819). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.4

The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.

Independent, Men, Doe

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Pain, Thinking, Long

Thomas Paine “Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Youth, Habit, Individual

Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.42, Library of America

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

Honor, Poverty, Bitterness

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

Country, Winter, Cities

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

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Wisdom, Country, 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.4, Madison & Adams Press

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Children, Father, Justice

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.51, e-artnow

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

God, Religious, Motivation

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.582, e-artnow

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

Mean, Government, Political

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.306, e-artnow

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

Christian, Men, Thinking

Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.260

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

Country, Real, Party

Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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