"The cunning of the fox is as murderous……" — Thomas Paine
"The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf."
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Thomas Paine
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384 Quotes by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine has 384 quotes on this site.
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective…
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought…
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More Cunning Quotes
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
— John Berger
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
— William Blake
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they…
— George W. Bush
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
— Pablo Casals
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
— Cesare Pavese
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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