Thomas Paine Quotes & Quotations

Thomas Paine Quotes

» My own mind is my own church.

» Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.

» These are the times that try men's souls.

» My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

» Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

» He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

» The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

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

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

» The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

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