When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

—Thomas Paine

About Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain, February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809; ) was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American...

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Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

—Thomas Paine

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

—Thomas Paine

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

—Thomas Paine

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

—Thomas Paine

Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.

—Thomas Paine

More quotations tagged with “planning”

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

—Publilius Syrus

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

—Napoleon Hill

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

—Joseph Campbell

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

—George S. Patton

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