Country Quotes by Thomas Paine

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

— Thomas Paine

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

— Thomas Paine

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

— Thomas Paine

My country is wherever liberty lives.

— Thomas Paine

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

— Thomas Paine

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is…

— Thomas Paine

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,…

— Thomas Paine

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in…

— Thomas Paine

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute…

— Thomas Paine

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and…

— Thomas Paine

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same…

— Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the…

— Thomas Paine

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently…

— Thomas Paine

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world,…

— Thomas Paine

I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring…

— Thomas Paine

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value…

— Thomas Paine

Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.…

— Thomas Paine

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that…

— Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,…

— Thomas Paine

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is…

— Thomas Paine

The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in…

— Thomas Paine

I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in…

— Thomas Paine

When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be…

— Thomas Paine

“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who…

— Thomas Paine