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“From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Cheer #Blow #Gun
“When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Taken #Rights #Perfect
“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Men #Forever #Might
“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”
-- Thomas Paine

#Happiness #Country #Ignorance
“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Littles #Too Much #Revolution
“Men should not petition for rights, but take them”
-- Thomas Paine

#Men #Rights #Petitions
“[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Christian #Church #Use
“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Country #War #Men
“It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Law #Succeed #Generations
“I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Fashion #Mistake #May
“I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Country #Spring #Your Side
“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?”
-- Thomas Paine

#Men #Age #World
“Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Remembrance #Atheism #Positive Atheism
“Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Land #Community
“In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Mean #Men #Rights
“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Believe #Tolerance #I Believe
“I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.”
-- Thomas Paine

#War #Fighting #Order
“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Government #Religion #Reviews
“The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.”
-- Thomas Paine

#America #Historical #World
“The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Home #Government #People
“There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Tyranny
“To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Men #Voting #Slavery
“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Life #Happiness #Religious
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
-- Thomas Paine

#Death #Dying #Uncertain
“As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Believe #Rights #Political
“The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Responsibility #Government #People
“In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Country #War #Views
“One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Country #Real #Party
“If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Law #Support #Gold
“There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.”
-- Thomas Paine

#Men #Scarcity #Credit

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