Tom Paine Quotes

• I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Tire, Paine

  "A Literary History of the American People‎" by Charles Angoff, (p. 270), 1931.

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• I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

  Richard Attenborough

  Men, Thinking, Paine

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

  Christopher Lasch

  Common Sense, Paine, Left

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• How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

  Burl Ives

  Liberty, Bells, Franklin

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• Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mean, Years, Democracy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

  Studs Terkel

  Couple, Book, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Character, Men, People

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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• [Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

  Jay Roach

  Common Sense, Black, Levels

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

  John Quincy Adams

  Horse, Men, Race

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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• Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tyrants, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.542, Рипол Классик

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