Famous Quotes

Quotes by Thomas Paine

• The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
• The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
• There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
• These are the times that try men's souls.
• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
• Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
• Time makes more converts than reason.
• To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
• To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
• 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, and that is to increase taxes.
• We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
• When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.