Thomas Paine Revolution Quotations

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

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.