“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
“Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of ancient mythologists, accomodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and yet it… — 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
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“May she [United States] never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But everything we see or hear offensive to our feelings and derogatory to the human character should lead to other reflections than… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Her ideas of national honor seem devoid of that benevolence of heart, that universal expansion of philanthropy, and that triumph over the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But, as, when any of the prouder passions are hurt, it is much better philosophy to let a man slip into 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
