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Thomas Paine — Portrait after a picture by Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Thomas Paine

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist

1737–1809

49 quotes, most often on America, Freedom and Truth & Lies. Part of the Founding Fathers collection.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
As quoted in The Crisis No. IV (12 September 1777)
- Freedom
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
Common Sense (1776), Part 1In context
- America
- Freedom
The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America
- Freedom
Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’Tis time to part.
Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America
- Freedom
In America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her⁠—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America
- Freedom

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