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Money Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land…
- Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain,…
- That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as…
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