Thomas Paine Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Money, Motivation

  Prospects on the Rubicon (1787)

• But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.

  Thomas Paine

  Progress, Credit, Moral

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.83

• In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

  Thomas Paine

  Travel, Progress, Politics

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.99

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