Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.


Thomas Paine

896

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.


Thomas Paine

896

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.


Thomas Paine

896

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.


Thomas Paine

896

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.


Thomas Paine

896

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.


Thomas Paine

896

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.


Thomas Paine

896

Time makes more converts than reason.


Thomas Paine

896

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


Thomas Paine

896

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


Thomas Paine

896

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.


Thomas Paine

896

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’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.


Thomas Paine

896

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


Thomas Paine

896

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.


Thomas Paine

896

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.


Thomas Paine

896

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’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.


Thomas Paine

896

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.


Thomas Paine

896

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.


Thomas Paine

896

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.


Thomas Paine

896

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.


Thomas Paine

896

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