Thomas Paine Quotes about Oppression
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.
Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.36, Cambridge University Press
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA