3 December 2020 Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine 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 its branches.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine 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 of the Faith, than George the Third.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine 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, and that is to increase taxes.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
