"To live with our enemies as if..." - Quote by Thomas Paine
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim
More by Thomas Paine
“For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.”
“A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.”
“But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.”
More on Politics
“Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
“Be grateful for blessings,Don't ever change, keep your essence.The power is in the people and politics we address.”
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”
More on Morality
“Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.”
“Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.”
“We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.”