When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. — 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
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it… — 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
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — 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
