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The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents) QUOTES

The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents) QUOTES

1 " That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate prejudices between Nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. "

― Thomas Paine , The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents)

2 " but from the errors of other nations let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity—to begin government at the right end. "

― Thomas Paine , The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents)

3 " Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; "

― Thomas Paine , The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents)

4 " Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen; an open and resolute friend; and a virtuous supporter of the RIGHTS of MANKIND, and of the FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA. "

― Thomas Paine , The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents)

5 " a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong,gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and "

― Thomas Paine , The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents)

6 " The belief that every human soul was the child of God, and capable of direct inspiration from the Father of all, without mediator or priestly intervention, or sacramental instrumentality, was fatal to all privilege and rank. "

― Thomas Paine , The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents)

7 " And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing; "

― Thomas Paine , The Works of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights Of Man, The Age Of Reason (With Active Table of Contents)