Best Thomas Paine Thoughts
- The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest. Arms
- The more we bestow the richer we become. Bestow
- The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. Less
- Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them… Acquires
- There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. Class
- A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power… Act
- It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues. Easy
- The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property. Evil
- It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations,… Consent
- Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of… Acting
- The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. Afraid
- These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time… Agreeable
- Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it. Call
- There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are… Already Shown
- The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been… Acts
- The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for… Age
- When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop,… Argument
- The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected. Inspirational
- The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax American
- How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. All
- What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. Assumed
- There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having… Buying
- One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty… Accident
- If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that… All
- Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion,… Affliction
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