--- title: "3 Antiwar Quotes By Thomas Paine" description: "3 Antiwar quotes by Thomas Paine. Plus more from Thomas Paine and more Antiwar sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/thomas-paine-267_4th-of-july_an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-whe_243349.png" --- > [An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-where-an-army-of-soldiers-cannot-2/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/thomas-paine-267_4th-of-july_an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-whe_243349.png) > [In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/in-reviewing-the-history-of-the-english-government-its-wars-and-its/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/thomas-paine-267_antiwar_in-reviewing-the-history-of-the-english_652045.jpg) > [War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/war-is-the-gambling-table-of-governments-and-citizens-the-dupes-of/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/thomas-paine-267_anti-war_war-is-the-gambling-table-of-governments_1244987.png) ## Other authors on Antiwar - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-ludwig-von-mises-61872.jpg) Ludwig von Mises 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/ludwig-von-mises/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/george-w-bush/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/noam-chomsky/) - [Martin Luther King, Jr 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/martin-luther-king-jr/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernard-barton-17291.jpg) Smedley Butler 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/smedley-butler/) - [Mark Twain 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/james-madison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-washington-38054.jpg) George Washington 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/george-washington/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eugene-v-debs-34163.jpg) Eugene V. Debs 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/eugene-v-debs/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dwight-d-eisenhower-30965.jpg) Dwight D. Eisenhower 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/dwight-d-eisenhower/) ## More by Thomas Paine > [“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/no-man-is-prejudiced-in-favour-of-a-thing-knowing-it-to-be-wrong-he/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-laws-of-every-country-must-be-analogous-to-some-common-principle/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-book-called-the-bible-has-been-voted-by-men-and-decreed-by-human/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/to-argue-with-a-person-who-has-renounced-the-use-of-reason-is-like/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-with-such-gross-and-vulgar/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/commerce-diminishes-the-spirit-both-of-patriotism-and-military-defence/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/what-is-it-the-bible-teaches-us-raping-cruelty-and-murder-what-is-it/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/those-who-expect-to-reap-the-blessings-of-freedom-must-like-men/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-has-been-the-practice-of-all-christian-commentators-on-the-bible/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/but-there-are-times-when-men-have-serious-thoughts-and-it-is-at-such/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Wisdom is not the purchase of a day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/wisdom-is-not-the-purchase-of-a-day/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/our-citizenship-in-the-united-states-is-our-national-character-our/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/suspicion-is-the-companion-of-mean-souls-and-the-bane-of-all-good/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/to-pass-from-the-extremes-of-danger-to-safety-from-the-tumult-of-war/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/what-more-does-man-want-to-know-than-that-the-hand-or-power-that-made/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/thomas-paine/#itemlist", "name": "3 Antiwar Quotes By Thomas Paine", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Paine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-where-an-army-of-soldiers-cannot-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/thomas-paine-267_4th-of-july_an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-whe_243349.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/thomas-paine-267_4th-of-july_an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-whe_243349.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/thomas-paine-267_4th-of-july_an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-whe_243349.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” — Thomas Paine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Paine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/in-reviewing-the-history-of-the-english-government-its-wars-and-its/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/thomas-paine-267_antiwar_in-reviewing-the-history-of-the-english_652045.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/thomas-paine-267_antiwar_in-reviewing-the-history-of-the-english_652045.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/thomas-paine-267_antiwar_in-reviewing-the-history-of-the-english_652045.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by…” — Thomas Paine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Paine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/war-is-the-gambling-table-of-governments-and-citizens-the-dupes-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/thomas-paine-267_anti-war_war-is-the-gambling-table-of-governments_1244987.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/thomas-paine-267_anti-war_war-is-the-gambling-table-of-governments_1244987.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/thomas-paine-267_anti-war_war-is-the-gambling-table-of-governments_1244987.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.” — Thomas Paine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/thomas-paine/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/thomas-paine/", "name": "Antiwar Quotes by Thomas Paine", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/thomas-paine/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/thomas-paine-267_4th-of-july_an-army-of-principles-will-penetrate-whe_243349.png" }, "description": "3 Antiwar quotes by Thomas Paine. 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