Tom Paine Quotes

“Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”
― John Adams

“I never tire of reading Tom Paine.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.”
― Theobald Wolfe Tone, The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1763-1798 Volume 2

“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.

{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine}”
― Henry Noel Brailsford, Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle