Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — 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
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — 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
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for… — 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
