Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. — 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
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
Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals. — 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
These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — 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… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“That there are men in all countries to whom a state of war is a mine of wealth, is a fact never… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“That advice should be taken wherever example has failed, or precept be regarded where warning is ridiculed, is like a picture of… — 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
“Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? It was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“(To the newly graduated) There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are certain circumstances, which, at the time of their happening, are a kind of riddles, and as every riddle is to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I remember the late Admiral Saunders declaring in the House of Commons, and that in the time of peace, 'That the city… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the… — 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
“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
