Tom Paine Quotes:

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "A Literary History of the American People‎" by Charles Angoff, (p. 270), 1931.

topic: Reading, Tire, Paine, Tom Paine

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

- Richard Attenborough

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Men, Thinking, Paine, Tom Paine

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Common Sense, Common, Paine, Tom Paine

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

- Burl Ives

topic: Liberty, Bells, Franklin, Liberty Bell, Paine

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

- Fiona Shaw

topic: Mean, Years, Democracy, 18th Century, Paine

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

- Studs Terkel

source: "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

topic: Couple, Book, Mean, Paine, Best Sellers

There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.

- Ronald Reagan

source: 1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

topic: Character, Men, People, American Revolution, Paine

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

- Jay Roach

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Common Sense, Black, Levels, Paine, Tom Paine

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

- John Quincy Adams

source: John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

topic: Horse, Men, Race, Paine, Simile

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.542, Рипол Классик

topic: Men, Tyrants, Ideas, Paine, Tom Paine