Quotes by : Thomas Paine

Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews....

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that....

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans....

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils,....

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry....

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already....

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions,....

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from....

There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to....