Author Name

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.

Author : 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.

Author : Thomas Paine

My mind is my own church.

Author : Thomas Paine

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Author : Thomas Paine

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Author : 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.

Author : Thomas Paine

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Author : Thomas Paine

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Author : 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.

Author : Thomas Paine

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Author : Thomas Paine