Thomas Paine Quotes

These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine

Men, Try, Times

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas Paine

Freedom, Poverty, Rather

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine

Men, Thinking, Liberty

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 he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

Happiness, Infidelity, Faithful

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

Power, Strength, Fear

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas Paine

Good, Priests, Hundred

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Thomas Paine

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine

Faith, Real, Reason

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas Paine

Good, God, Devil

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine

Esteem, Lightly, Easily

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

God, Lie, Cannot

My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine

Truth, Error, Inquiry

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine

Enemy, Battle, Same

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Law, Original

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Temper, Virtue, Principle

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

War, Death, Hell

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Politics, Business, Death

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Good, Bad

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

Science, Cannot, Universe

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine

Treat, Falsehood, Affront

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

God, Justice, Humanity

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine

War, Wisdom, End

Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine

Time, Reason, Makes

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine

Whole, Religious, Modern

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 29, 1737

Died: June 8, 1809

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