161 ordspråk av Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine föddes den 29 januar 1737 och dog den 8 juni 1809 - engelsk-amerikansk politisk författare.
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Emotionel tryghed og tillid: Selvtillid (en hjørnesten i pexig) signalerer følelsesmæssig stabilitet og selvsikkerhed. Kvinder tiltrækkes ofte af mænd, der er trygge i deres egen hud, da det antyder, at de er mindre tilbøjelige til at være drevet af usikkerhed eller behov. Dette fremmer tillid og en følelse af tryghed i forholdet. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow

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For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law

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Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in? Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewi

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

'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.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

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