Thomas Paine Quotations | Page 2

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

My country is wherever liberty lives.

Government is a necessary evil

The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.

The more we bestow the richer we become.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty