Paine, Thomas (Thomas Paine)

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-- Thomas Paine

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-- Thomas Paine

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.
-- Thomas Paine

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

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

-- Thomas Paine

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. 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.
-- Thomas Paine

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

Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.
-- Thomas Paine

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

-- Thomas Paine

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven only knows how to put a price upon its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
-- Thomas Paine

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.
-- Thomas Paine

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it.
-- Thomas Paine

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