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Thomas Paine Quotes about Liberty

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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Men, Law, Liberty

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.557, e-artnow

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

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

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Flames, Shining, Liberty

Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

Government, Liberty, Principles

Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.83

My country is wherever liberty lives.

Country, Liberty

It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.

Men, Law, Liberty

Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.160, Cambridge University Press

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Truth, Liberty, Want

Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

Political, Liberty, Principles

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

Religious, Liberty, Immigration

"Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America".

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

America, Liberty, Syntax

The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

Country, Patriotism, Liberty

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Flames, Shining, Liberty

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Brother, Tree, Liberty

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognised by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it.

Heart, Mind, Liberty

Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.12

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

Happiness, America, Liberty

Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.15

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