Libertarian Quotes by Thomas Paine

8 Libertarian quotes by Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine’s eight succinct lines on libertarian concepts echo his revolutionary spirit, each a tight expression of his enduring ideals.

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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best…

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

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Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual…

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Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized…

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The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his…

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Government is best which governs least

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she…

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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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