~ Thomas Paine Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

'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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.