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Cases Quotes by Thomas Paine

13 Cases quotes by Thomas Paine

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Paine’s voice still rings with the urgency of a time when ideas could topple regimes. In this brief collection, he applies that same fire to the notion of cases, urging readers to question authority and champion fairness. The pieces are short but carry the weight of a man who helped shape a nation.

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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded…

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No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is…

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Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon…

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The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it…

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In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary…

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The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,…

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Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for…

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It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected,…

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Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as…

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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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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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Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the…

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Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

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

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

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“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…

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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 him believe…

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