...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly... — 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
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