Thomas Paine Quotes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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