Paine Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. — Richard Attenborough
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a… — Jack White
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine… — Burl Ives
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in… — Charles Evans Hughes
I never tire of reading Tom Paine. — Abraham Lincoln
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. — Treat Williams
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. — Philip Sidney
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including… — Jim Hightower
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. — Christopher Lasch
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common… — Patti Smith
This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginningâ€”from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,… — John Steinbeck
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and… — Orson Scott Card
Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise… — Fiona Shaw
Well, if they will not march with Paine, they shall march under him. — James Lick
All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fightingfor, and he fought for… — Sidney Buchman

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