All Thomas Paine Quotes
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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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine
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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine
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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.
Thomas Paine
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Thomas Paine
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Thomas Paine
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