Quotes By Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

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.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.