Collecting Quote by Thomas Paine

“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

“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”

— Thomas Paine

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

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

— Thomas Paine

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

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…

— Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

— Thomas Paine

“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

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

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

— Thomas Paine

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