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
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is… — 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
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
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — 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
