Best Thomas Paine Proverbs
- ...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity. Founded
- It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… Amuse
- Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property… Any
- From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit… All
- Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. Both
- The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. Bible
- I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. Abc
- It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. Action
- I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and… Accuse
- The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached. Bible
- And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible. Almighty
- The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties… Ascribes
- Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible. Been
- We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed… Been
- Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. Alive
- One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have… Absurdities
- The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and… Any
- Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. Action
- I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. Content
- Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the… All
- And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,… Beautiful
- All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous… Age
- He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender… Better
- We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. Actualities
- But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. All
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