Quotes on history

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

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

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

“I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

“The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

“The American Constitutions were to Liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

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

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

“It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

“Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,

“Monarchy and succession have laid… The world in blood and ashes.”

Thomas Paine
Topics: , ,