Peace Quotes by Thomas Paine

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

— Thomas Paine

War ought to be no man's wish.

— Thomas Paine

The balance of power is the scale of peace.

— Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

— Thomas Paine

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

— Thomas Paine

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

— Thomas Paine

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

— Thomas Paine

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

— Thomas Paine

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

— Thomas Paine

“He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation…

— Thomas Paine

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a…

— Thomas Paine

“On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the rights of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting…

— Thomas Paine

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the…

— Thomas Paine

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

“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress.…

— Thomas Paine

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is…

— Thomas Paine

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to…

— Thomas Paine

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.…

— Thomas Paine

“There is something in a war carried on by invasion which makes it differ in circumstances from any other mode of war,…

— Thomas Paine

The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural…

— Thomas Paine

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that…

— Thomas Paine

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of…

— Thomas Paine

“That there are men in all countries to whom a state of war is a mine of wealth, is a fact never…

— Thomas Paine

“War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It…

— Thomas Paine

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break…

— Thomas Paine

“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains…

— Thomas Paine

“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who,…

— Thomas Paine

Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.…

— Thomas Paine

“The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The…

— Thomas Paine

“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

“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates…

— Thomas Paine

“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin…

— Thomas Paine

“The right of war and peace is in the nation. where else should it reside but in those who are to pay…

— Thomas Paine

“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically…

— Thomas Paine