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title: "63 Paine Quotes by 51 authors"
description: "Browse 63 Paine quotes by 51 authors. Discover the best Paine sayings and thoughts."
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> [And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-spenser/and-painefull-pleasure-turnes-to-pleasing-paine/)

[Edmund Spenser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-spenser/)

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> [I never tire of reading Tom Paine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-never-tire-of-reading-tom-paine/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [Great paines quickly find ease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-herbert/great-paines-quickly-find-ease/)

[George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-herbert/)

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> [It's more paine to doe nothing then something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-herbert/it-s-more-paine-to-doe-nothing-then-something/)

[George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-herbert/)

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> [Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-herbert/paines-to-get-care-to-keep-feare-to-lose/)

[George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-herbert/)

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> [“Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-adams/without-the-pen-of-paine-the-sword-of-washington-would-have-been/)

[John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-adams/)

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> [Well, if they will not march with Paine, they shall march under him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lick/well-if-they-will-not-march-with-paine-they-shall-march-under-him/)

James Lick

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> [The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/the-scourge-of-life-and-death-s-extreme-disgrace-the-smoke-of-hell/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

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> [“I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/i-love-the-man-that-smiles-at-trouble-that-can-gather-strength-from/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-lasch/the-left-no-longer-stands-for-common-sense-as-it-did-in-the-days-of/)

[Christopher Lasch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-lasch/)

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> [The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-evans-hughes/the-liberty-of-the-press-is-not-confined-to-newspapers-and/)

[Charles Evans Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-evans-hughes/)

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> [My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-quincy-adams/my-stern-chase-after-time-is-to-borrow-a-simile-from-tom-paine-like/)

[John Quincy Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-quincy-adams/)

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> [Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-jackson/thomas-paine-needs-no-monument-made-with-hands-he-has-erected-a/)

[Andrew Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-jackson/)

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> [“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. —    Thomas Paine”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-james/those-who-expect-to-reap-the-blessings-of-freedom-must-like-men-2/)

Jessica James

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> [It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-j-nock/it-would-seem-that-in-paine-s-view-the-code-of-government-should-be/)

[Albert J. Nock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-j-nock/)

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> [“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/all-national-institutions-of-churches-whether-jewish-christian-or/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-edison/i-consider-paine-our-greatest-political-thinker-as-we-have-not/)

[Thomas A. Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-edison/)

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> [ \[Dalton\] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/dalton-trumbo-wrote-this-incredible-pamphlet-almost-on-the-level-of/)

[Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/)

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> [Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-edison/many-a-person-who-could-not-comprehend-rousseau-and-would-be-puzzled/)

[Thomas A. Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-edison/)

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> [This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/this-is-what-historians-usually-do-quibble-about-cause-and-effect/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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> [No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/no-society-has-gone-the-way-of-gulags-or-concentration-camps-by/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-have-been-lately-introduced-to-the-famous-thomas-paine-and-like-him/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamaica-kincaid/but-you-know-where-did-the-brontes-go-to-college-where-did-george/)

[Jamaica Kincaid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamaica-kincaid/)

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> [The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-monroe/the-crime-of-ingratitude-has-not-yet-stained-and-i-trust-never-will/)

[James Monroe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-monroe/)

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> [All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fightingfor, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-buchman/all-you-people-don-t-know-about-lost-causes-mr-paine-does-he-said/)

Sidney Buchman

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> [“Paine’s texts may be selectively read and variably interpreted, but as much as those on the political right can quote and try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-j-kaye/paine-s-texts-may-be-selectively-read-and-variably-interpreted-but-as/)

Harvey J. Kaye

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> [“When Bonaparte returned from Italy he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-clio-rickman/when-bonaparte-returned-from-italy-he-called-on-mr-paine-and-invited/)

Thomas Clio Rickman

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> [There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/there-are-no-words-to-express-the-extraordinary-strength-and/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/what-i-say-should-always-be-prefaced-with-this-i-m-not-really/)

[Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patti-smith/)

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> [“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-edison/tom-paine-has-almost-no-influence-on-present-day-thinking-in-the/)

[Thomas Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-edison/)

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> [“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/farrell-till/the-primary-leaders-of-the-so-called-founding-fathers-of-our-nation/)

Farrell Till

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> [“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moncure-daniel-conway/in-1881-being-on-a-visit-to-boston-my-wife-and-i-found-ourselves-in/)

Moncure Daniel Conway

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> [“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moncure-d-conway/in-editing-a-volume-of-washington-s-private-letters-for-the-long/)

[Moncure D. Conway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moncure-d-conway/)

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> [“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-edison/paine-suffered-then-as-now-he-suffers-not-so-much-because-of-what-he/)

[Thomas A. Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-edison/)

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> [The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/the-church-of-this-country-is-not-only-indifferent-to-the-wrongs-of/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-basler/when-abraham-lincoln-was-26-years-old-in-1835-he-wrote-a-defense-of/)

Roy Basler

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> [“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-adams/it-was-the-general-opinion-of-ancient-nations-that-the-divinity-alone/)

[John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-adams/)

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> [I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-attenborough/i-think-tom-paine-is-one-of-the-greatest-men-that-s-ever-lived/)

[Richard Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-attenborough/)

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> [Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/treat-williams/robert-treat-paine-was-a-signer-of-the-declaration-of-independence/)

[Treat Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/treat-williams/)

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> [In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-edison/in-common-sense-paine-flared-forth-with-a-document-so-powerful-that/)

[Thomas A. Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-edison/)

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                        "text": "But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?",
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                        "text": "There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.",
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                        "text": "What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.",
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                        "text": "“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first proposed and first wrote those impressive words, 'the United States of America.' But it is hardly strange. Paine 's teachings have been debarred from schools everywhere and his views of life misrepresented until his memory is hidden in shadows, or he is looked upon as of unsound mind. We never had a sounder intelligence in this Republic. He was the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible. Where Washington performed Paine devised and wrote. The deeds of one in the Weld were matched by the deeds of the other with his pen. Washington himself appreciated Paine at his true worth. Franklin knew him for a great patriot and clear thinker. He was a friend and confidant of Jefferson , and the two must often have debated the academic and practical phases of liberty. I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles. Although the present generation knows little of Paine 's writings, and although he has almost no influence upon contemporary thought, Americans of the future will justly appraise his work. I am certain of it. Truth is governed by natural laws and cannot be denied. Paine spoke truth with a peculiarly clear and forceful ring. Therefore time must balance the scales. The Declaration and the Constitution expressed in form Paine 's theory of political rights. He worked in Philadelphia at the time that the first document was written, and occupied a position of intimate contact with the nation's leaders when they framed the Constitution. Certainly we may believe that Washington had a considerable voice in the Constitution. We know that Jefferson had much to do with the document. Franklin also had a hand and probably was responsible in even larger measure for the Declaration. But all of these men had communed with Paine . Their views were intimately understood and closely correlated. There is no doubt whatever that the two great documents of American liberty reflect the philosophy of Paine . ...Then Paine wrote 'Common Sense,' an anonymous tract which immediately stirred the fires of liberty. It flashed from hand to hand throughout the Colonies. One copy reached the New York Assembly, in session at Albany, and a night meeting was voted to answer this unknown writer with his clarion call to liberty. The Assembly met, but could find no suitable answer. Tom Paine had inscribed a document which never has been answered adversely, and never can be, so long as man esteems his priceless possession. In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again. It must be remembered that 'Common Sense' preceded the declaration and affirmed the very principles that went into the national doctrine of liberty. But that affirmation was made with more vigor, more of the fire of the patriot and was exactly suited to the hour... Certainly [the Revolution] could not be forestalled, once he had spoken. { The Philosophy of Paine , June 7, 1925 }”",
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                        "text": "“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the American Revolution. Its major tenets included belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems and belief in a supreme deity who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws. The supreme God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it. They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man. A necessary consequence of these beliefs was a rejection of many doctrines central to the Christian religion. Deists did not believe in the virgin birth, divinity, or resurrection of Jesus, the efficacy of prayer, the miracles of the Bible, or even the divine inspiration of the Bible. These beliefs were forcefully articulated by Thomas Paine in Age of Reason, a book that so outraged his contemporaries that he died rejected and despised by the nation that had once revered him as 'the father of the American Revolution.'... Other important founding fathers who espoused Deism were George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , Benjamin Franklin , Ethan Allen , James Madison , and James Monroe . [ The Christian Nation Myth, 1999 ]”",
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                        "text": "“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- Emerson , Thoreau , Theodore Parker, -- who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people. Every variety of power was in this orator, -- logic and poetry, humor and imagination, simplicity and dramatic art, moral and boundless sympathy . The wonderful power which Washington's Attorney-general, Edmund Randolph, ascribed to Thomas Paine of insinuating his ideas equally into learned and unlearned had passed from Paine 's pen to Ingersoll 's tongue. The effect on the people was indescribable. The large theatre was crowded from pit to dome. The people were carried from plaudits of his argument to loud laughter at his humorous sentences, and his flexible voice carried the sympathies of the assembly with it, at times moving them to tears by his pathos . { Conway's thoughts on the great Robert Ingersoll }”",
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                        "text": "“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications that this great historic personality represented the Liberal religious tendency of his time. That tendency was to respect religious organizations as part of the social order, which required some minister to visit the sick, bury the dead, and perform marriages. It was considered in nowise inconsistent with disbelief of the clergyman's doctrines to contribute to his support, or even to be a vestryman in his church. In his many letters to his adopted nephew and younger relatives, he admonishes them about their manners and morals, but in no case have I been able to discover any suggestion that they should read the Bible, keep the Sabbath, go to church, or any warning against Infidelity. Washington had in his library the writings of Paine , Priestley, Voltaire , Frederick the Great , and other heretical works. [ The Religion of Washington ]”",
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                        "text": "“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others... He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on those creeds - or on persons devoted to them - have served to darken his memory, casting a shadow across the closing years of his life. When Theodore Roosevelt termed Tom Paine a 'dirty little atheist' he surely spoke from lack of understanding. It was a stricture, an inaccurate charge of the sort that has dimmed the greatness of this eminent American. But the true measure of his stature will yet be appreciated. The torch which he handed on will not be extinguished. If Paine had ceased his writings with 'The Rights of Man' he would have been hailed today as one of the two or three outstanding figures of the Revolution. But 'The Age of Reason' cost him glory at the hands of his countrymen - a greater loss to them than to Tom Paine . I was always interested in Paine the inventor. He conceived and designed the iron bridge and the hollow candle; the principle of the modern central draught burner. The man had a sort of universal genius. He was interested in a diversity of things; but his special creed, his first thought, was liberty. Traducers have said that he spent his last days drinking in pothouses. They have pictured him as a wicked old man coming to a sorry end. But I am persuaded that Paine must have looked with magnanimity and sorrow on the attacks of his countrymen. That those attacks have continued down to our day, with scarcely any abatement, is an indication of how strong prejudice, when once aroused, may become. It has been a custom in some quarters to hold up Paine as an example of everything bad. The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty - who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause - can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands. { The Philosophy of Paine , June 7, 1925 }”",
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                        "text": "The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors… For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!",
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                        "text": "“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men... and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious chimeras of divine rights in princes and nobles, are nearly unanimous in preserving remnants of it... Is the jealousy of power, and the envy of superiority, so strong in all men, that no considerations of public or private utility are sufficient to engage their submission to rules for their own happiness? Or is the disposition to imposture so prevalent in men of experience, that their private views of ambition and avarice can be accomplished only by artifice? — … There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful. The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, any more than those at work upon ships or houses, or labouring in merchandize or agriculture: it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. As Copley painted Chatham, West, Wolf, and Trumbull, Warren and Montgomery; as Dwight, Barlow, Trumbull, and Humphries composed their verse, and Belknap and Ramzay history; as Godfrey invented his quadrant, and Rittenhouse his planetarium; as Boylston practised inoculation, and Franklin electricity; as Paine exposed the mistakes of Raynal, and Jefferson those of Buffon , so unphilosophically borrowed from the Recherches Philosophiques sur les Américains those despicable dreams of de Pauw — neither the people, nor their conventions, committees, or sub-committees, considered legislation in any other light than ordinary arts and sciences, only as of more importance. Called without expectation, and compelled without previous inclination, though undoubtedly at the best period of time both for England and America, to erect suddenly new systems of laws for their future government, they adopted the method of a wise architect, in erecting a new palace for the residence of his sovereign. They determined to consult Vitruvius, Palladio, and all other writers of reputation in the art; to examine the most celebrated buildings, whether they remain entire or in ruins; compare these with the principles of writers; and enquire how far both the theories and models were founded in nature, or created by fancy: and, when this should be done, as far as their circumstances would allow, to adopt the advantages, and reject the inconveniences, of all. Unembarrassed by attachments to noble families, hereditary lines and successions, or any considerations of royal blood, even the pious mystery of holy oil had no more influence than that other of holy water: the people universally were too enlightened to be imposed on by artifice; and their leaders, or more properly followers, were men of too much honour to attempt it. Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind. [ Preface to 'A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America', 1787 ]”",
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