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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

- Thomas Paine | Government and Rule Quotes

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

- Thomas Paine | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

- Thomas Paine | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

My own mind is my own church.

- Thomas Paine | Religion Quotes

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

- Thomas Paine | Happiness Quotes

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

- Thomas Paine | Right Quotes

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

- Thomas Paine | Risks Quotes

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

- Thomas Paine | Problems Quotes

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

- Thomas Paine | Worthy Victories Quotes

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

- Thomas Paine | Calumny Quotes

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

- Thomas Paine | Commerce Quotes

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

- Thomas Paine | Humanity Quotes

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.

- Thomas Paine | Moderation Quotes

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

- Thomas Paine | Patriotism Quotes

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

- Thomas Paine | Religion Quotes

These are the times that try men's souls.

- Thomas Paine | Time Quotes

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

- Thomas Paine | Writing Quotes