Produce Quotes by Thomas Paine

10 Produce quotes by Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s ten brief reflections champion the power of individual effort to shape society, urging readers to take ownership of their output. The snippets feel like a compact rallying cry.

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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of…

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The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

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One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value…

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The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent;…

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But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other…

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...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government:…

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Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon…

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Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but…

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As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial…

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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,…

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“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its…

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“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”

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The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief…

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

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What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

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“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

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But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

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Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

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