Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that… — 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
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — 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
“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
