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World Quotes by Thomas Paine

55 World quotes by Thomas Paine

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Citizenship in the United States defines national character, while state ties remain local. Thomas Paine observes that the world’s circumstances and opinions shift constantly, making balance of power essential for peace. He warns that politics mixed with self‑interest breeds suspicion, and that arms both deter invasion and preserve order.

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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

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The birthday of a new world is at hand.

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate…

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If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

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All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World…(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With…

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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

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I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with…

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

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The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly...

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The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief…

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If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,…

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

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How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to…

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Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in…

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Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern…

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Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,…

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Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we…

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O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the…

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Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized…

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The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with…

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

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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…

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The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,…

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The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an…

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The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world,…

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

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His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the…

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To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith…

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Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she…

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We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We…

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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world,…

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From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His…

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Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the…

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Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies…

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Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can…

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A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

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

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…