Quotes
Quotes - Paine
'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.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
My mind is my own church.
The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
