“Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine” — Jessica James Copy Share Image
It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fightingfor, and… — Sidney Buchman Copy Share Image
“Paine’s texts may be selectively read and variably interpreted, but as much as those on the political right can quote and try… — Harvey J. Kaye Copy Share Image
“When Bonaparte returned from Italy he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address… — Thomas Clio Rickman Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine:… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was… — Farrell Till Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. — Treat Williams Copy Share Image
In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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