{"id":830,"date":"2013-08-28T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=830"},"modified":"2013-08-28T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:19:53","slug":"thomas-paine-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Paine quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quotation<\/a>Paine, Thomas (1737 – 1809),US patriot & political philosopher
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\nTo argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.<\/p>\n

<\/i>The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.<\/p>\n

<\/i>We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.<\/p>\n

<\/i>When we are planning for posterity (succession of future generations), we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.<\/p>\n

<\/i>I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. \u2018Tis 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.<\/p>\n

<\/i>What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.<\/p>\n

<\/i>A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.<\/p>\n

<\/i>He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.<\/p>\n

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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