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'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.


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THOMAS PAINE Most Americans don't know a lot about Thomas Paine, but they carry Thomas Paine with them. Thomas Pa...
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EDMUND MORGAN The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly...
H.N. BRAILSFORD I have always regarded P...
THOMAS A. EDISON Paine was a grand fe...
WALT WHITMAN Tom Paine ha...
THOMAS A. EDISON Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...
THOMAS PAINE Paine suffered then,...
THOMAS A. EDISON When Bonaparte<...
THOMAS CLIO RICKMAN I think Thomas Paine would clearly support an international coalition removing Iraq leader Saddam Hu...
HARVEY KAYE I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where...
BURL IVES He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is c...
CHANAKYA Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhap...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venali...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the ...
CHARLES A. BEARD When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY Paine didn't hide his identity to be cute or clever. He did it so he wouldn't be thrown in jail or p...
ADAM THIERER What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is the business of little minds to shrink
CARL SANDBURG Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ref...
THOMAS PAINE Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose s...
OSCAR WILDE (But) it's been his plan all along to run for Thomas' seat when he retired.
DAN BRENNAN What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were th...
BIBLE Sen. Thomas' diligence and energy will be missed in the Senate chambers and I wish he and his family...
MARC BASNIGHT He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to...
DAVID HUME Shocked? I consider Bob...
WALT WHITMAN In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the MONCURE D. CONWAY The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future...
GAYLORD NELSON Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under who...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I told Thomas to take some of the velocity of the ball, and he started throwing strikes. His form wa...
BRIAN AINSWORTH Life is like a pitcher, you can only get out of it what you put into it, and I have put all I had in...
BOBBY W. MILLER He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
GEORGE CHAPMAN It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
GEORGE HERBERT What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitioni...
JIM HIGHTOWER He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to ...
DAVID HUME 'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all. - Thomas Tusser,
THOMAS TUSSER He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous ...
THE TALMUD I would predict he will keep his promise and appoint a justice in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, a s...
BRADFORD BERENSON You want to know the secret to raising good kids?”
“What’s that? asked Thomas.
“Hi...
CHRIS NICOLAISEN I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, wh...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Yeah, right," Minho said. "And Frypan's gonna start having little babies, Winston'll get rid of his ...
JAMES DASHNER Alister & Paine is a refreshing source of original, provocative business information - a rare find t...
ROSS SALARDINI Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it.
CHRISTOPHER SMART What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just tr...
PATTI SMITH But he whose father is dead, while his grandfather lives, shall, after pronouncing his father s name...
GURU NANAK Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is.
BRENDON AYANBADEJO Teresa stood up, surprising Thomas with her confidence.
“Guess he forgot to tell the little p...
JAMES DASHNER I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, C...
WILLIAM COWPER No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his ou...
THOMAS C. HALIBURTON No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his ou...
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON A man whose heart gets broken easily finds his mind awakened.
ANUJ SOMANY In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he wa...
THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, / Are like gold nails in temples to hang tro...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thomas is a solid hockey player; always has been. But his confidence is really high right now.
DON JENNINGS There is a Reaper whose name is Death, / And, with his sickle keen, / He reaps the bearded grain at ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worshi...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD [On his deathbed:] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and ...
MARK TWAIN We knew he (Thomas) was going to get his 20. We just had to shut everybody else down.
CASEY RIDDLE Thomas was just hundredths of seconds away. Thomas is new to track, but he's making strides.
KIM WILLIAMS The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose bro...
BIBLE I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 bu...
MIKE PENCE Men's lives are short .
The hard man and his cruelties will be
Cursed behind his back and ...
ROBERT FITZGERALD Rob Thomas' Stripped performance is honest and pure, ... I was especially blown away by his interpre...
EVAN HARRISON Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of g...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater t...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds hims...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds him...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN Bill Thomas turned his backs on America's working people to go home and raise money.
ANITA DUNN He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
HENRY WARD BEECHER (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enem...
BIBLE Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain a...
GEORGE ELIOT Thomas has put his leadership in the position of trying to pretend there was a different reason for ...
ANITA DUNN And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? / They say unto him, Caesar's. Then ...
BIBLE Then August knew. Thomas didn’t dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn’t know what it w...
KRIS NOEL He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave
MATTHEW HENRY He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
MATTHEW HENRY

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THOMAS PAINE In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...
THOMAS PAINE That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of n...
THOMAS PAINE Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou...
THOMAS PAINE People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
THOMAS PAINE He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
THOMAS PAINE As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ...
THOMAS PAINE The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has...
THOMAS PAINE When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...
THOMAS PAINE Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
THOMAS PAINE But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing ...
THOMAS PAINE The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...
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