Quotes

I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity.
-Thomas Payne

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
-Thomas Payne

It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradation we surmount the force of local prejudice as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.
-Thomas Payne

The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent - of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe.
-Thomas Payne

In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
-Thomas Payne

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
-Thomas Payne

But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
-Thomas Payne

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
-Thomas Payne

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
-Thomas Payne

But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
-Thomas Payne

Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government.
-Thomas Payne

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
-Thomas Payne

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
-Thomas Payne

There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required.
-Thomas Payne

The word of God is the creation we behold and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
-Thomas Payne

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.
-Thomas Payne

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.
-Thomas Payne

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
-Thomas Payne

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
-Thomas Payne