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Thomas Paine Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Thomas_Paine_rev1.jpg/225px-Thomas_Paine_rev1.jpg)
An author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Thomas "Tom" Paine (February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."
Here are some famous quotes by Thomas Paine.
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My mind is my own church.
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My own mind is my own church.
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Lead follow or get out of the way.
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Time makes more converts than reason.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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These are the times that try men's souls.
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That government is best which governs least.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
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What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly.
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The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
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The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities but not on possibilities.
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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From such beginnings of governments what could be expected but a continual system of war and extortion?
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But such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.
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Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
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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.
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The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor Which rests wholly upon yourself. So to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.
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The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
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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.
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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.
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.