Frases de Thomas Paine

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Variante: O fato de continuarmos a pensar que uma determinada coisa não é errada dá-nos uma aparência superficial de estarmos certos.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine in: The Age of Reason, III, 1794
Variante: O mundo é meu país, os humanos são meus irmãos e fazer o bem é minha religião.

Character is much easier kept than recovered
The American crisis‎ - Página 142 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=vDq6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA142, Thomas Paine - J. Watson, 1835 - 145 páginas

my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
"Rights os Man" in: "The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine"‎ - Chap. V Página 79 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=a5YIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA79, de Thomas Paine, Paine - Publicado por R. Carlile, 1819

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one
"Common Sense" in: "The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine"‎ - Página 5 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=a5YIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA5, de Thomas Paine - Publicado por R. Carlile, 1819
Senso Comum

That government is best which governs least
citação ora atribuída a Thomas Paine, ora a Thomas Jefferson; veja: "Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation" - página 256 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=ueiFrjupXdUC&pg=PA256, nota 25, Por Curt Meine, Publicado por Island Press, 2004 ISBN 1559637323, 9781559637329 296 páginas
Disputadas

These are the times that try men's souls
The Crisis I, published December, 1776

A Era da Razão
Fonte: The Age of Reason http://books.google.com.br/books?id=vZYIAAAAQAAJ&hl=pt-BR&pg=RA3-PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false (1793) Parte I, pág. 13 ISBN 0517091186.

Titles are but nick-names, and every nick-name is a title.
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution‎ - Página 66 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=9FkJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA66, de Thomas Paine - Publicado por Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791 - 171 páginas

Senso Comum

My mind is my own church
The Age of Reason‎ - Página 18, de Thomas Paine, Ernest Renan, Charles Bradlaugh - Publicado por Forgotten Books, 1884 ISBN 1606208535, 9781606208533 - 208 páginas
A Era da Razão

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society
"The Age of Reason" in: "The Political and Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Paine‎" - Página 4 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=vZYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA4, de Thomas Paine, Richard Carlile - Publicado por Printed and published by R. Carlile, 1819
A Era da Razão

Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society and civilization are not conveniently competent.
"Common Sense" in: "The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine" - Página 20 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=a5YIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false, de Thomas Paine - Publicado por R. Carlile, 1819
Senso Comum

1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Contexto: 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. 'Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; The wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters.

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
Contexto: TO AMERICANS. THAT some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications.

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Contexto: To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin. In doing this we shall easily discover that governments must have arisen either out of the people or over the people. Mr. Burke has made no distinction. He investigates nothing to its source, and therefore he confounds everything; but he has signified his intention of undertaking, at some future opportunity, a comparison between the constitution of England and France. As he thus renders it a subject of controversy by throwing the gauntlet, I take him upon his own ground. It is in high challenges that high truths have the right of appearing; and I accept it with the more readiness because it affords me, at the same time, an opportunity of pursuing the subject with respect to governments arising out of society.

Part 2.2 Introduction
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)
Contexto: Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, — and all it wants, — is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock and man began to contemplate redress.

The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Contexto: There is a mystery in the countenance of some causes, which we have not always present judgment enough to explain. It is distressing to see an enemy advancing into a country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them, whenever they made the attempt. The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.

1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
Contexto: The universe is composed of matter, and, as a system, is sustained by motion. Motion is not a property of matter, and without this motion the solar system could not exist. Were motion a property of matter, that undiscovered and undiscoverable thing, called perpetual motion, would establish itself. It is because motion is not a property of matter, that perpetual motion is an impossibility in the hand of every being, but that of the Creator of motion. When the pretenders to Atheism can produce perpetual motion, and not till then, they may expect to be credited.

1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
Contexto: It was the excess to which imaginary systems of religion had been carried, and the intolerance, persecutions, burnings, and massacres, they occasioned, that first induced certain persons to propagate infidelity; thinking, that upon the whole, that it was better not to believe at all, than to believe a multitude of things and complicated creeds, that occasioned so much mischief in the world. But those days are past, persecution has ceased, and the antidote then set up against it has no longer even the shadow of apology. We profess, and we proclaim in peace, the pure, unmixed, comfortable, and rational belief of a God, as manifested to us in the universe. We do this without any apprehension of that belief being made a cause of persecution as other beliefs have been, or of suffering persecution ourselves. To God, and not to man, are all men to account for their belief.

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Contexto: There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the "end of time," or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it; and therefore all such clauses, acts or declarations by which the makers of them attempt to do what they have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
Contexto: But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born — a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing? Is it we that light up the sun, that pour down the rain, and fill the earth with abundance? Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on. Are these things, and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to us? Can our gross feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide? Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator?

1790s, Agrarian Justice (1797)
Contexto: I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it. But it is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicity it is capable of being enjoyed, while so much misery is mingled in the scene.

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
Contexto: It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
Contexto: It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

Fonte: 1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

1790s
Fonte: "A Letter: Being an Answer to a Friend, on the publication of The Age of Reason" (12 May 1797), published in an 1852 edition of The Age of Reason, p. 205 http://books.google.com/books?id=2PgRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205

The Crisis No. I.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Contexto: I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door], with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me [[peace in my day."
Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

1790s
Fonte: The Age of Reason

1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Contexto: Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Contexto: A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

The Crisis No. I (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776).
Fonte: 1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Contexto: 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: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. 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.

Fonte: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

Fonte: The Age of Reason

An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry (1803-1805); found in manuscript form after Paine's death and thought to have been written for an intended part III of The Age of Reason. It was partially published in 1810 and published in its entirety in 1818.
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