Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
