3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
