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Men Quotes by Thomas Paine

141 Men quotes by Thomas Paine

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Paine reminds us that freedom costs effort, like any other blessing. He criticizes churches for keeping people ignorant of the divine. He also points out that society splits into those who pay taxes and those who live on them, and that civil rights should stem from natural rights.

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War ought to be no man's wish.

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To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

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Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

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Man must go back to nature for information.

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Kill the king but spare the man.

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Men should not petition for rights, but take them

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These are the days that try man's heart.

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These are the times that try men's souls.

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The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well…

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It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

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There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

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When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to…

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THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or…

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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an…

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Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though…

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The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the…

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Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,…

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The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

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

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Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged…

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There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of…

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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is…

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The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view,…

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For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual…

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What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let…

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From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His…

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

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The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has…

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The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,…

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The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an…

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There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay…

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The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things.…

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When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his…

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It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There…

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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,…

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“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its…

“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”

The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief…

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

“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…

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…