Our Posterity, Thomas Paine Thursday's

"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight."

-Thomas Paine 1776 - Common Sense

Principles, Thomas Paine Thursday's, The Words of Our Founding Fathers

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
-Thomas Paine
1776 - The Crisis, no 1
Category: Courage
Reference: respec. Quoted

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The Words of Our Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine Thursday's--2

"These are the times that try men's souls. The

summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,

in this crisis, shrink from the service of their

country; but he that stands it now, deserves the

love and thanks of man and woman. 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 proper 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 Words of Our Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine Thursday's--1

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Thomas Paine
1791 - Rights of Man
Category: Taxation

"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."

Reference: Thomas Paine: Collected Writings , Foner ed., Library of America (549)