All THOMAS PAINE Quotes about “Children”

“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.”
“The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.”
“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
“I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.”

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