Thomas Paine

(308 votes)   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
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(300 votes)   It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(229 votes)   "the colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black."

Thomas Paine

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(173 votes)   Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(111 votes)   The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(104 votes)   A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(94 votes)   The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above.

Thomas Paine

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(91 votes)   Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(70 votes)   We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(64 votes)   Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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(48 votes)   I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(47 votes)   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
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(46 votes)   The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(43 votes)   The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

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(40 votes)   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
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