All Thomas Paine Quotes
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas Paine
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Thomas Paine
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine
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He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine
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