Thomas Paine 4th Quotations

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.