Thomas Paine Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Motivation, Integrity

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

• 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

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.649, Library of America

• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Faith, Respect

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

• 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

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

• Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, America, Liberty

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.15

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