Badges Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Badges Dresses Fashion Government Government Like Innocence Like Dress Lost Lost Innocence Politics
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
“in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair,… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
It's an honour to wear the shirt and the badge, and to be part of such an illustrious club is gonna be exciting, and… — Asmir Begovic Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image