 The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.
Thomas Paine
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
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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
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall."
Thomas Paine
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, not by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
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