Thomas Paine Quotes

Thomas Paine Quotes

Thomas Paine Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Thomas Paine:

"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."

"Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness."

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

"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."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
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