My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. | |
– Thomas Paine | |
From: “The Rights of Man“ | |
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Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Paine’
I’ll Drink To That
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Acts, Country, Do Good, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion, The Rights Of Man, Thomas Paine on June 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Why Republicans Are Unhappy
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Democracy, Happiness, Infidelity, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Republican Party, Thomas Paine on August 30, 2021| 1 Comment »
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
[If Republicans believe in Democracy and the right of the people to choose their government’s leaders, why have they spent almost ten months denying the results of (and trying to overturn) an election they lost so decisively? And why have they spent the same amount of time trying to limit the ability of voters to vote in future elections? Maybe T. Paine has explained the unhappiness (and rage) of current Republicans. When will the true political conservatives stand up and challenge the crazies who have taken over their party? Lord knows, they’ve been wandering in the dessert for over forty years now… — kmab] | |
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In Pursuit
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Beauty, Bravery, Distress, Philosophy, Principles, Quotes, Reflection, Smile, ST:TOS, Strength, Thomas Paine, Trouble, Truth on April 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »
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. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
[While I agree with Paine – in general – on the admirable traits required to accomplish great things. I am equally reminded of the saying (I made up based on the title of a Star Trek – Original Series episode): “there is no truth in beauty, although there is a beauty in truth“. Anyway, I would caution readers the above quote is equally valid for many mass murderers and terrorists – maybe even more so. — KMAB] | |
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Would That This Be True
Posted in Faith, Quotes, tagged Faith, On God, On Seeking Peace, Quotes, The Crisis, Thomas Paine on December 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
From: “The Crisis“ | |
23 December 1776 | |
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A Proper Price
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Freedom, On Summer Soldiers, On Sunshine Patriots, On Tyranny, Quotes, The Crisis, Thomas Paine on June 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »
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 by 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. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
From: “The Crisis“ | |
23 December 1776 | |
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Professional Beliefs
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged On Morality, On Politics, Philosophy, Quotes, The Age Of Reason, Thomas Paine on January 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. Can we conceive of anything more destructive to morality than this? | |
— Thomas Paine | |
From: “The Age of Reason“ | |
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All Good
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Religion, Philosophy, Quotes, The Rights Of Man, Thomas Paine on March 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
From his book: “The Rights Of Man“ | |
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