Thomas Paine Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Government, Hands

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• 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)

• Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Country, Mean

  Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.4, Madison & Adams Press

• The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Men, America

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