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Thomas Paine Quote: “The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power...”
Thomas Paine Quote: “I have now gone through the Bible, as a man would go through a wood with an axe on his shoulder, and fell trees. Here they lie; and the priests, if they can, may replant them. They may, perhaps, stick them in the ground, but they will never make them grow.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act...”
Thomas Paine Quote: “I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred in her constitution, that we ought to watch every word we speak, and every thought we think, that we injure it not, even by mistake.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind... he trades with the same countries... (that he) would have gone to war with.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.”
Thomas Paine Quote: ““Government,” says Swift, “is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads.””
Thomas Paine Quote: “All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World... (yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “What is it the Bible teaches us? – rapine, cruelty, and murder.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts...”
Thomas Paine Quote: “In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points – his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Mind thine own concerns. If he believes not as thou believest, it is a proof that thou believest not as he believes, and there is no earthly power can determine between you.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “It is against the whole hell of Monarchy that I have declared war.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “It is not because the right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Government is nothing more than a national association; and the object of this association is the good of all, as well individually as collectively. Every man wishes to pursue his occupation, and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are anwered.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.”
Thomas Paine Quote: “I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.”
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