Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings Quotes

“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings

“It is by tracing things to their origin, that we learn to understand them; and it is by keeping that line and that origin always in view, that we never forget them.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings

“The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings

“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be reached by the sudden exertion of a thought; and it frequently happens in sentimental differences, that the striking circumstance, or some forcible reason quickly conceived, will effect in an instant what neither argument nor example could produce in an age.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings