“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he… — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“ Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
