We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with… — 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
