“These are the times that try men's souls.”
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead.”
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
- Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal
- Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right ... Time makes more converts than reason.”
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
WHEN it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want. WHEN these things can be said, THEN may that country boast
-Thomas Paine
-Thomas Paine
“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
“Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.”
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
“...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes”
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
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