Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Thomas Paine.
Top 25 Thomas Paine Quotes and Sayings
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Time makes more converts than reason.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
These are the times that try men's souls.
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 atheist by scripture.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.