Thomas Paine Messages

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

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

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

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

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

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.