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title: "29 Ifs Quotes By Thomas Paine"
description: "29 Ifs quotes by Thomas Paine. Plus more from Thomas Paine and more Ifs sayings from other authors."
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> [If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/if-those-to-whom-power-is-delegated-do-well-they-will-be-respected-if/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/if-the-present-generation-or-any-other-are-disposed-to-be-slaves-it/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/if-there-was-ever-a-just-war-since-the-world-began-it-is-this-in/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/immediate-necessity-makes-many-things-convenient-which-if-continued/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/but-if-objects-for-gratitude-and-admiration-are-our-desire-do-they/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/ah-reader-put-thy-trust-in-thy-creator-and-thou-wilt-be-safe-but-if/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/i-would-give-worlds-if-i-had-them-if-the-age-of-reason-had-never-been/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-new-testament-they-tell-us-is-founded-upon-the-prophecies-of-the/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-is-not-because-a-part-of-the-government-is-elective-that-makes-it/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/not-all-the-treasures-of-the-world-so-far-as-i-believe-could-have/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-reformation-was-preceded-by-the-discovery-of-america-as-if-the/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/every-national-church-or-religion-has-established-itself-by/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/if-to-expose-the-fraud-and-imposition-of-monarchy-to-promote-2/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/there-is-a-happiness-in-deism-when-rightly-understood-that-is-not-to/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-case-however-is-that-the-bible-will-not-bear-examination-in-any/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-is-a-fool-only-and-not-the-philosopher-nor-even-the-prudent-man/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/great-part-of-that-order-which-reigns-among-mankind-is-not-the-effect/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/never-i-say-had-a-country-so-many-openings-to-happiness-as-this-her/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-most-horrible-wickedness-and-cruelties-and-the-greatest-miseries/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/heaven-knows-how-to-put-a-proper-price-upon-its-goods-it-would-be/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/if-anything-had-or-could-have-a-value-equal-to-gold-and-silver-it/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-new-testament-rests-itself-for-credulity-and-testimony-on-what/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-burden-of-the-national-debt-consists-not-in-its-being-so-many/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/if-any-generation-of-men-ever-possessed-the-right-of-dictating-the/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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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…](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/)

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> [The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-story-of-the-whale-swallowing-jonah-though-a-whale-is-large/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-continual-whine-of-lamenting-the-burden-of-taxes-however/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/a-government-on-the-principles-on-which-constitutional-governments/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/prejudice-like-the-spider-makes-everywhere-its-home-it-has-neither/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## 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/)

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