The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINETo argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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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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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
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