Quotes by Thomas Paine

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

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.