Ifs Quotes by Thomas Paine

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

— Thomas Paine

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?

— Thomas Paine

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

— Thomas Paine

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with…

— Thomas Paine

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of…

— Thomas Paine

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the…

— Thomas Paine

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation…

— Thomas Paine

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

— Thomas Paine

The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the…

— Thomas Paine

The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called…

— Thomas Paine

If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,…

— Thomas Paine

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it…

— Thomas Paine

The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the…

— Thomas Paine

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.…

— Thomas Paine

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is…

— Thomas Paine

The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but…

— 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

Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted…

— Thomas Paine

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break…

— Thomas Paine

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other…

— Thomas Paine