We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — 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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