An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The right of war and peace is in the nation. where else should it reside but in those who are to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World…(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the rights of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is something in a war carried on by invasion which makes it differ in circumstances from any other mode of war,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“That there are men in all countries to whom a state of war is a mine of wealth, is a fact never… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — 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
