Thomas Paine Short Quotes

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Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

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The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

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Titles are but nick-names, and every nick-name is a title.

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Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

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

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A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

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To elect, and to reject, is the prerogative of a free people.

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What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

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Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

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It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

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The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

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Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

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Monarchy and succession have laid…the world in blood and ashes.

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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

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No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

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It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

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The true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

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A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

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It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

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I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

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I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

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He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

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Youth is the seed-time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

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Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

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A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

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