I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A good opinion of ourselves is exceedingly necessary in private life, but absolutely necessary in public life, and of the utmost importance… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Every history of the creation, and every traditionary account, whether from the lettered or unlettered world, however they may vary in their… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
