Top 25 Quotes by Thomas Paine of 526 - Page 8

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

Thomas Paine

Law, Support, Gold

Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.167, Yale University Press

It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together

Thomas Paine

Eye, Offending, Opposites

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.781, e-artnow

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Thomas Paine

Lying, Religion

Thomas Paine (1835). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: The Most Complete Edition Ever Published”, p.138

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.

Thomas Paine

Men, Rights, Individual Power

Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.41, Xist Publishing

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Thomas Paine

Science, Men, Principles

1794 TheAge of Reason, pt.1.

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.

Thomas Paine

Strong, Gun, Weak Will

Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

Thomas Paine

Men, Land, Community

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

Thomas Paine

Mother, Religious, Home

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.25, Penguin

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

Thomas Paine

Gun, Order, Law

Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

Thomas Paine

Hate, Men, Knowing

Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.161, Cambridge University Press

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

Thomas Paine

Cheer, Freedom, Blow

Thomas Paine (1850). “Miscellaneous poems of that noble of nature, Thomas Paine”, p.11

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

Thomas Paine

Running, Power, Watches

Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.14

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Thomas Paine

Happiness, Faith, Respect

The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

Thomas Paine

Men, Evil, Sacred

Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.400, Oxford Paperbacks

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.

Thomas Paine

Book, Belief, Wonderful

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

Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.

Thomas Paine

Sympathy, Condolences, Heart

Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.315

There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.

Thomas Paine

Men, Scarcity, Credit

Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.405

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

Thomas Paine

Christian, Data, Religion

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.99, e-artnow

As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious, or an irreligious, eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.

Thomas Paine

Christian, Religious, Believe

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.26, e-artnow

Science is the true theology.

Thomas Paine

Religion, Theology

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

Thomas Paine

Descendants

My country is wherever liberty lives.

Thomas Paine

Country, Liberty

As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

Thomas Paine

Believe, Rights, Political

Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.338

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

Thomas Paine

Christian, Jesus, Church

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Thomas Paine

Age, Reform, Arguing

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.190, e-artnow

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