151 ordspråk av Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine föddes den January 29th 1737 och dog den 8 June 1809 - and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.
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 '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. |
| '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. |
| A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men |
| A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. |
| A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. |
| A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve |
| Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance |
| Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch |
| All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. |
| And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible |
| Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true |
| Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were [the law-abiding] deprived of the use of them. |
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