In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It frequently happens that in proportion as we are taught to dislike persons and countries, not knowing why, we feel an ardor… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the… — 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
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is… — 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
