Thomas Paine Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”

“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”

“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”

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

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

“He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.”

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

“There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.”

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

“It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.”