Thomas Paine Quotes

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:time reason

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:power world

“It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradations we surmount the force of local prejudice, as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:knowledge experience

“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:power government

“Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others the most improper to defend us.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:power

“That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:power trust

“Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:wisdom

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:evil government society

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:government

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