FAMOUS QUOTES BY THOMAS PAINE

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

“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.”

“The world will be happier when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.”

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”

“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” ADOPTION QUOTES FOR BIRTH MOTHERS

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”

“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”

“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.”

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”

“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”