Selected quotes · 19
№ 01
“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
Thomas PaineLife
№ 02
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Thomas PaineFreedom
№ 03
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
Thomas PaineAction
№ 04
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
Thomas PaineCourage
№ 05
“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
Thomas PaineAction
№ 06
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”
Thomas PaineFaith
№ 07
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas PaineSuccess
№ 08
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
Thomas PaineCourage
№ 09
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
Thomas PaineWisdom
№ 10
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
Thomas PaineWisdom
№ 11
“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 PaineFriendship
№ 12
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
Thomas PaineFaith
№ 13
“Time makes more converts than reason.”
Thomas PainePhilosophy
№ 14
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
Thomas PaineFaith
№ 15
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
Thomas PaineWisdom
№ 16
“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
Thomas PaineFaith
№ 17
“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 PaineGrowth
№ 18
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Thomas PaineFailure
№ 19
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
Thomas PaineGrowth