paine Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about paine.
“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
- Thomas Paine
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
- Thomas Paine
“I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”
- Thomas Paine
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
- Thomas Paine
“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”
- Thomas Paine
“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”
- Thomas Paine
“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.”
- Thomas Paine
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
- Thomas Paine
“Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.”
- Thomas Paine
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
- Thomas Paine