“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of… — 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
“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
