An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. — 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
“The right of war and peace is in the nation. where else should it reside but in those who are to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — 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
