Top 63 Quotes by Thomas Paine

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

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

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.