9 Thomas Paine Quotes on History

Thomas Paine quotes on history

13. The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent-of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe. 'Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; The wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters.

25. And the final event to himself (Mr. Burke) has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

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

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

63. Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

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64. I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine.

72. Works by Thomas Paine at Project Gutenberg

75. There are only five statues of Thomas Paine in the world

77. Great American Death Masks, mask of Thomas Paine