3 Thomas Paine Quotes on Education

Thomas Paine quotes on education

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

22. It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

46. The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.