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Such Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
- From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
- A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced,…
- 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…
- The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for…
- If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that…
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- 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…
- 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…
- But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
- War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain,…
- To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of…
- Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
- To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No,…
- It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses,…
- The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision,…
- Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such…
- It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses,…
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