Quotes by Thomas Paine

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.