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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered (Thomas Paine Quotes)
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others (Thomas Paine Quotes)
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies (Thomas Paine Quotes)
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion (Thomas Paine Quotes)
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right (Thomas Paine Quotes)
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody (Thomas Paine Quotes)
... taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes (Thomas Paine Quotes)
... for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it (Thomas Paine Quotes)
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 (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself (Thomas Paine Quotes)
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man (Thomas Paine Quotes)
... the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any (Thomas Paine Quotes)
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? (Thomas Paine Quotes)
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves (Thomas Paine Quotes)
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence (Thomas Paine Quotes)
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach (Thomas Paine Quotes)
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity (Thomas Paine Quotes)
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object (Thomas Paine Quotes)
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird (Thomas Paine Quotes)