Thomas Paine Quotes

“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

“For monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:government

“And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:government judgement

“I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:government simplicity

“Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:government

“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:society honesty worth

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a...”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:appearance wrong

“Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:right oppression

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