Frases de Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine fue un político, escritor, filósofo, intelectual radical y revolucionario estadounidense de origen inglés. Promotor del liberalismo y de la democracia. Es considerado uno de los Padres fundadores de los Estados Unidos.

Nacido en Thetford, en el condado inglés de Norfolk, Paine emigró a las colonias británicas en América en 1774 para participar en la revolución americana. Sus contribuciones principales fueron el tan leído ensayo Common Sense , donde abogaba por la independencia de las colonias y The American crisis una serie de escritos a favor de la revolución.

En 1789 visitó Francia y allí vivió durante casi toda la década siguiente. Se vio envuelto profundamente en los primeros años de la Revolución francesa. Escribió Rights of Man , en parte una defensa de la Revolución francesa contra sus críticos, en particular el hombre de estado británico Edmund Burke. En Gran Bretaña, fue juzgado y declarado culpable en ausencia por el crimen de libelo sedicioso. A pesar de no hablar francés, fue elegido para la Convención Nacional en 1792. Los girondinos le vieron como un aliado por lo que los montañeses, en especial Robespierre, lo consideraron su enemigo. En diciembre de 1793, fue arrestado y encarcelado en París y liberado en 1794. Se hizo notorio por La edad de la razón , libro que aboga por el deísmo, promueve la razón y el librepensamiento, argumenta en contra de la religión institucionalizada y las doctrinas cristianas. También escribió Justicia agraria , discutiendo los orígenes de la propiedad e introduciendo el concepto de renta mínima garantizada. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. febrero 1737 – 8. junio 1809   •   Otros nombres Пейн Томас
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Frases célebres de Thomas Paine

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“Es tal la fuerza irresistible de la verdad, que lo único que pide y lo único que necesita es libertad para mostrarse. El Sol no necesita ningún rótulo para que se le distinga de la oscuridad.”

Fuente: Pumarega, Manuel. Frases célebres de hombres célebres. 3ª Edición. Editorial México, 1949, p. 248.

“Mi país es el Mundo y mi religión es hacer el bien.”

Fuente: Sociedad civil global: 2004/2005. Editorial Icaria Editorial, 2005. ISBN 9788474268232, p. 137.
Fuente: Los derechos del hombre, 1791

Thomas Paine Frases y Citas

“El gobierno, en la mejor condición, es un mal necesario; y en la peor es insoportable.”

Fuente: Escandón, Rafael. Frases célebres para toda ocasión. Editorial Diana, 1982. ISBN 978-96-8131-285-5, p. 124.

“Que se cuente al mundo futuro… que en el más profundo invierno, cuando no podía sobrevivir nada más que la esperanza y la virtud… la ciudad y el campo, alarmados ante el peligro común, se apresuraron a hacerle frente.”

Fuente: Pérez de las Heras, Mónica. El secreto de Obama. LID Editorial, 2009.
Fuente: Discurso de investidura de Barak Obama, 20 de enero de 2009. http://www.beersandpolitics.com/discursos/barack-obama/discurso-de-investidura/29
Fuente: De La crisis americana.

Thomas Paine: Frases en inglés

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

Fuente: A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness”

1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Contexto: Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.

“A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any body.”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

Thomas Paine libro Common Sense

Fuente: Common Sense

“Give me liberty, or give me death.”

Thomas Paine libro Common Sense

Fuente: Common Sense

“… taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Fuente: Rights of Man

“My own mind is my own church.”

Thomas Paine libro The Age of Reason

Fuente: The Age of Reason

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

The Forester's Letters http://www.bartleby.com/184/117.html, Letter III—'To Cato', Pennsylvania Journal (24 April 1776)
1770s

“Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part 1.7 Conclusion
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Contexto: Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

“It is by distortedly exalting some men, that others are distortedly debased, till the whole is out of nature.”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

Commonly attributed to Paine, even on memorials https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Paine_Plaque_NY.jpg|, and justly describes his ideals, but found nowhere in his writings. It is actually is derived from a quote in Rights of Man: Part 2, "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Misattributed

“These are the times that try men's souls.”

Thomas Paine libro The American Crisis

Fuente: The American Crisis

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part 2.7 Chapter V. Ways and means of improving the condition of Europe, interspersed with miscellaneous observations
Fuente: 1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)
Contexto: I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

“But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.”

The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Contexto: Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.

“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the "end of time," or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Contexto: There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the "end of time," or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it; and therefore all such clauses, acts or declarations by which the makers of them attempt to do what they have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.

“Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms.”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Contexto: Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding Liberty of Conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the Pope armed with fire and faggot, and the other is the Pope selling or granting indulgences. The former is church and state, and the latter is church and traffic.