Paine Quotes

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
Christopher Lasch

Sense, Days, Left

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
Patti Smith

Try, Wrong, Around

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
Jim Hightower

Mother, Democracy, Down

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
Fiona Shaw

Mean, Democracy, Around

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
Richard Attenborough

Men, Greatest, Lived

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Treat Williams

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
Burl Ives

Liberty, Walk, Streets

Well, if they will not march with Paine, they shall march under him.
James Lick

Him, Shall, March

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