“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” ~Thomas Paine
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot." ~Thomas Paine
“As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.” ~Thomas Paine
"Character is much easier kept than recovered." ~Thomas Paine
"Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty." ~Thomas Paine
“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.” ~Thomas Paine
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection." ~Thomas Paine
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.” ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." ~Thomas Paine on Virtue
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." ~Thomas Paine
“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that every lived.” ~Thomas Paine
“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
“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” ~Thomas Paine
“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.” ~Thomas Paine
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." ~Thomas Paine
“As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.” ~Thomas Paine
"Character is much easier kept than recovered." ~Thomas Paine
"Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty." ~Thomas Paine
“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.” ~Thomas Paine
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” ~Thomas Paine
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection." ~Thomas Paine
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.” ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." ~Thomas Paine on Virtue
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." ~Thomas Paine
“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that every lived.” ~Thomas Paine
“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
“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” ~Thomas Paine
“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.” ~Thomas Paine
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." ~Thomas Paine
"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." ~Thomas Paine
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” ~Thomas Paine
"The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.” ~Thomas Paine
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” ~Thomas Paine
"The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.” ~Thomas Paine
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion. " ~Thomas Paine
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord” ~Thomas Paine
“This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.” ~Thomas Paine
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." ~Thomas Paine from BrainyQuote
“When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.” ~Thomas Paine
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” ~Thomas Paine
“Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.” ~Thomas PaineThe
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord” ~Thomas Paine
“This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.” ~Thomas Paine
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." ~Thomas Paine from BrainyQuote
“When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.” ~Thomas Paine
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” ~Thomas Paine
“Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.” ~Thomas PaineThe
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