Tag: Thomas Paine

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

Thomas Paine

The time has found us.

Thomas Paine

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

Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.

Thomas Paine

There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required.

Thomas Paine

Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.

Thomas Paine

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.

Thomas Paine

A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.

Thomas Paine

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine