paine Quotes

“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.”

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

“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.”

“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”

“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

“Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.”

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”