Would That This Be True

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

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

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

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good.
—  Thomas Paine
From his book:  “The Rights Of Man“
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