All THOMAS PAINE Quotes about “Liberty”

“The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.”
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.”
“The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.”
“The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.”
“A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.”

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