151 ordspråk av Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine föddes den
29 Januar 1737 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. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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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
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War ought to be no man's wish
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again
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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries
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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary
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