Quotes by : Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis....

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession....

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have....

That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools....

Time makes more converts than reason.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.....

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than....

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well....

There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to....

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans....