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
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man. — 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
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — 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 Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an… — 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
It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses?… — 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
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in… — 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
