If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with… — 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
“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — 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
“If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“May she [United States] never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a… — 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
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