Thomas Paine Famous Quotes
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. '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."
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
Thomas Paine Quotations
"It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906"
Mark Twain
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
Abraham Lincoln
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Proverb
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
Francis Bacon
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Leonard Bernstein
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
Martina Horner
"I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose."
Lyndon B Johnson
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.
Franz Kafka
"The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."
Mary Catherine Bateson