Quotes by Paine, Thomas

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue i >>

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. >>

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our ci >>

Quotations about Emotions

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. >>

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to >>

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the ne >>

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Paine, Thomas