Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We… — 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
“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.” — 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
“It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he… — 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 animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a… — 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
“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
