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
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — 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
The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — 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
It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the… — 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
