Best Thomas Paine Quotations
- Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. Able
- Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early… Act
- And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of… Any
- But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men… Assigned
- No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case… Bears
- Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,… All
- Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here… Design
- Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to… All
- When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales… Bible
- The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder… Apple
- Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called… Bible
- The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved… Arranged
- The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense. Christian
- The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. Children
- The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder. Begins
- Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would… All
- I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… Any
- Wisdom is not the purchase of a day Day
- Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. All
- The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly... Business
- An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. Always Dangerous
- It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious… Absolutely
- I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. Believe
- As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It… Appears
- The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the… Class
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