Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — 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
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but… — 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
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — 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
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
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
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
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
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“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
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
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
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
