Paine

Famous quotes containing the word paine:

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)