Thomas Paine föddes den 29 januari1737 och dog den 8 juni 1809 - and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
[The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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