Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,… — 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
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
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at… — 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
