- “We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.” ~Thomas Paine (1777)
- “When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” ~Thomas Paine (1776)
- “It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” ~Thomas Paine (1776)
- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” ~Thomas Paine
- “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” ~Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” ~Thomas Paine (1777)
- “I am as confident as I am that God governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion . . . Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that . . . the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to . . . to repulse it . . . Throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but ‘show your faith by your works,’ that God may bless you . . .” ~Thomas Paine (American Crisis)
- Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . Heaven knows how to put a price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated . . .” ~Thomas Paine (The American Crisis)
