What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine View this quote
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal. Thomas Paine
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right. Thomas Paine
A democracy is the most vile form of government there is! Thomas Paine
A government of our own is our natural right. Thomas Paine
A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician. Thomas Paine
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. Thomas Paine
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected. Thomas Paine
A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose. Thomas Paine
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. Thomas Paine
English and American political activist
February 9th, 1737 - June 8th, 1809
