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Good Quotes by Thomas Paine
- It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
- 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…
- 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…
- And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of…
- But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion…
- Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
- Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to…
- Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in…
- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is…
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle