The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“One of the great advantages of the American Revolution has been, that it led to a discovery of the principles, and laid… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed is that of attempting them before the principles on which they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But everything we see or hear offensive to our feelings and derogatory to the human character should lead to other reflections than… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its… — 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
