Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief… — 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
There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the… — 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
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his… — 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
