There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the… — 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
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind… — 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
