There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of… — 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
The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that… — 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
