Great paines quickly find ease.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.
