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Thomas Paine Quotes
- "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
- "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
- "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
- "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true."
- "Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."
- "But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
- "Character is much easier kept than recovered."
- "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
- "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
- "Human nature is not of itself vicious."
- "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
- "If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately."
- "It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance."
- "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.'
- "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
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