<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Thomas Paine Quotes</title><description>Quotes from the US Founding Father.Thomas Paine</description><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/father/id/8</link><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/700</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/700</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined, nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides from an unarmed man, may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/697</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/697</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/694</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/694</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[These are the times that try men`s soul`s]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/693</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/693</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[He who dares not offend cannot be honest.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/661</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/661</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[The preservation of a free Government requires not merely, that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are Tyrants. The People who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 
]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/576</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/576</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA["The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong."]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/428</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/428</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/427</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/427</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/426</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/426</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/425</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/425</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/424</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/424</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/423</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/423</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/422</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/422</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/421</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/421</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/420</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/420</guid><title>Thomas Paine Quote</title><description><![CDATA[The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety. ]]></description></item></channel></rss>