Citizen Tom Paine Quotes

“Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger--but not exultation”
― Howard Fast, Citizen Tom Paine

“He was no longer Tom Paine; suddenly and curiously, he had become Common Sense. He had written a little book, a hope or a suggestion; he was a stranger in a tidewater colony that had defied the world. He was nobody, yet out of that he became everybody, for he had seen, with the candid eyes of a peasant, the hope of mankind.”
― Howard Fast, Citizen Tom Paine

“If a man makes the world his castle, he does not seek to furnish it.”
― Howard Fast, Citizen Tom Paine

“But a man is not born too soon, Paine had smiled. The world waits for men and dreamers, so how can a man be born too soon?”
― Howard Fast, Citizen Tom Paine