May Quotes by Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

— Thomas Paine

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

— Thomas Paine

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

— Thomas Paine

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common…

— Thomas Paine

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though…

— Thomas Paine

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the…

— Thomas Paine

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

— Thomas Paine

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can…

— Thomas Paine

I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for…

— 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

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of 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

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but…

— Thomas Paine

“All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man, on the unity of man, as…

— Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if…

— Thomas Paine

The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."…

— Thomas Paine

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may…

— Thomas Paine

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There…

— Thomas Paine

America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by…

— 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

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,…

— 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

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

— Thomas Paine

Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was…

— Thomas Paine

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they…

— Thomas Paine

These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in…

— Thomas Paine

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is…

— Thomas Paine