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Thomas Paine Quotes

«It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.»
«The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance»
«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.»
«My mind is my own church.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: church, My own
«One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests»
«Character is much easier kept than recovered.»
«He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death»
«The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow»
«What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | Keywords: cheap, esteem, lightly, obtain
«Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity»

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