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- The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- 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.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
- The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), "The Rights of Man", 1792
- To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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