Quote#Death
I have lived an honest and useful life to mankind; my time has been…
Quote byThomas Paine · 1737–1809
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Last will (1809), as quoted in The Fortnightly Review, vol. 31, pp. 398–399.
English (original)
I have lived an honest and useful life to mankind; my time has been spend in doing good and I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.
— Thomas Paine
More from Thomas Paine
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
A man who is so exceedingly civil that for the sake of quietude and a peaceable name will silently see the community imposed upon, or their rights invaded, may, in his principles, be a good man, but cannot be stiled a useful one, neither …
This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end.