Thomas Paine Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion, Priests, Trade

  Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

• Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.

  Thomas Paine

  Exercise, Men, Rights

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.102

• The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Political, Ignorant

• The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Mean, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.204

• 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

• Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, War, Mind

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