But any war is harvest to such Governments, however ruinous it may be to a nation. It serves to keep up deceitful expectations, which prevent a people looking into the defects and abuses of Government. It is the "lo here!" and the "lo there!" that amuses and cheats the multitude.
Thomas PaineWhen it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government
Thomas PaineIf men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.
Thomas PaineA body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Thomas PaineTag: trust accountability
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Thomas PaineTag: liberty the-american-crisis
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
Thomas PaineTag: death dying certain uncertain
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas PaineTag: world religion good country
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
Thomas PaineO mundo é meu país, os humanos são meus irmãos e fazer o bem é minha religião.
Thomas PaineThe 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.
Thomas PaineTag: strength struggle triumph growth
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