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Thomas Paine Quotes
Page 4 of 4Thomas Paine
January 29, 1737 - June 8, 1809
Nationality: English
Category: Writer
Subcategory: English Writer
|  That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. | | Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. | | Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. | | 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. | | But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. | | Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. | | Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. |
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