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Nature Quotes by Thomas Paine

45 Nature quotes by Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine points out that nature never bends its course, using it as a moral compass against unfair power. The quotes describe nature as a firm, unchanging force that challenges hereditary rule. They also hint that nature’s steady rhythm can reveal the truth behind human actions.

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Man must go back to nature for information.

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... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

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He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

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A government of our own is our natural right

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Human nature is not of itself vicious.

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Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time…

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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

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It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON…

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“But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

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Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate…

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There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of…

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The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to…

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“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual…

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I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the…

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Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights,…

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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would…

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It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a…

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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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We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We…

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

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Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the…

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I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important…

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Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that…

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“Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,…

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“It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he…

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…

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“The natural rights which he retains are all those in which the Power to execute is as perfect in the individual as…

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“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That…

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“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and…

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The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely;…

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

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“The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the…

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

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That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the…

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Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when…

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“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of heredetary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would…

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There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as…

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The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in…

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Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that…

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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

“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…

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…