“love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that 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 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
