Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas PaineTag: reason
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 PaineTag: character steadfastness
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Thomas PaineTag: government king monarchy
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.
Thomas PaineThese are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas PaineTag: adversity american-revolution trials
To reason with governments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected.
Thomas PaineThe whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas PaineAn army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.
Thomas PaineTag: ideas-progress-truth
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Thomas PaineTag: christianity religion skepticism
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
Thomas PaineTag: science christianity religion skepticism the-bible
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