Best Thomas Paine Lines
- Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor… Community
- We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.… Admit
- It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.… Blasphemously
- When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it. Attempt
- To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some… Enemies
- A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve Doe
- For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree Agree
- It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt Arrogance
- Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor… Bear
- My country is wherever liberty lives. Country
- The birthday of a new world is at hand. Birthday
- Government is a necessary evil Evil
- In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government… Afterwards
- The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason. Choicest
- What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder. Bible
- It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. Bible
- The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation… Called
- The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the… All
- There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something… All
- Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of… Any
- Government is best which governs least Best
- Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a… Bulk
- The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient… Ancient
- Government without a constitution, is a power without a right. Constitution
- The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just. American Revolution
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