The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — 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
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by… — 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
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against… — 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
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices… — 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
