Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Paine

Prophesying is lying professionally.

— Thomas Paine

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

— Thomas Paine

Man must go back to nature for information.

— Thomas Paine

A government of our own is our natural right

— Thomas Paine

The more we bestow the richer we become.

— Thomas Paine

The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.

— Thomas Paine

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

— Thomas Paine

Government is best which governs least

— Thomas Paine

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

— Thomas Paine

A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

— Thomas Paine

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

— Thomas Paine

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

— Thomas Paine

...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes

— Thomas Paine

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

— Thomas Paine

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

— Thomas Paine

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it…

— Thomas Paine

“Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils,…

— Thomas Paine

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its…

— Thomas Paine

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution…

— Thomas Paine

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

— Thomas Paine

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

— Thomas Paine

Government is a necessary evil

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

— Thomas Paine

My country is wherever liberty lives.

— Thomas Paine

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

— Thomas Paine

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly...

— Thomas Paine

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

— Thomas Paine

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

— Thomas Paine

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

— Thomas Paine

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

— Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

— Thomas Paine