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Jun 8, 2017 · Discover Thomas Paine famous and rare quotes. Share Thomas Paine quotations about religion, liberty and war. "To argue with a person who has renounced..."
862 quotes from Thomas Paine: 'The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.', 'These are the times that try men's souls.', and '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, or endeavoring to convert an ...
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. Thomas Paine (1824).
Common Sense Quotes Showing 1-30 of 183. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”.
29 of the best book quotes from Thomas Paine 01 “Until an independence is declared the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.”
Common Sense by Thomas Paine: Key Quotes Explained. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense may be, after The Communist Manifesto, the most influential political tract ever written.
Thomas Paine. Full Quote. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was a vigorous defender of and participant in both the American and French Revolutions. His most famous work is Common Sense (1776) which was an early call for the independence of the American colonies from Britain.
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Crisis and Upheaval. These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Thomas Paine.
