Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of… — 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
The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate… — 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
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
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. — 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
