The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time… — 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
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
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“One of the great advantages of the American Revolution has been, that it led to a discovery of the principles, and laid… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. — 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
“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 Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
