Thomas Paine Quotes on America

3 quotes

  1. The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.

  2. Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

  3. History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.

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