Top 63 Quotes by Thomas Paine

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

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

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

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.