To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“That in which every man is interested, is every man's duty to support. And any burden which falls equally on all men,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Though age will naturally exempt a person from personal service, it cannot exempt him from his share of the charge, because the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The natural rights which he retains are all those in which the Power to execute is as perfect in the individual as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“May she [United States] never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What Archimedes said of the mechanical powers, may be applied to Reason and Liberty: "Had we," said he, "a place to stand… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
![“May she [United States] never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a charm that wins upon the world, and makes even enemies civil. That it gives a dignity which is often superior to power, and commands reverence where pomp and splendor…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4b4/thomas-paine-267_america_may-she-united-states-never-forget-that_2742944.png)
