Best Thomas Paine Sayings
- The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. Accomplished
- The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. American Revolution
- Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a… American Revolution
- I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf,… America
- Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and… Alarmed
- I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay… All
- The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to… Determined
- It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object,… Conquest
- Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it… Absolute
- I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair… Abolition
- In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare… Antiwar
- Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. Changeable
- As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… Any
- A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. Bad
- A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. Great
- No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or… Absolute
- We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of,… Any
- A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the… Any
- I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is… Become Popular
- The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. Been
- Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… Cowardice
- And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are… Abandoned
- Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. Becomes
- It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. Belief
- One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently… Ass
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