Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Saturday, July 7, 2012 – Thomas Paine
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Saturday, July 7, 2012 – Thomas Paine
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 always a vice.
And
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
And
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
And
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
And
“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
And
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
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“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.”
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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
