Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt… — 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
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree — 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
