Thomas Paine Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Peace

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.96, Penguin

• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)

• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

• Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Peace, Truth

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.196, Rowman & Littlefield

• Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, World

• 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, Peace, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.104

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