“ 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. 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. Thomas Paine
“ What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value. 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. Thomas Paine
“ But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. 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. Thomas Paine
“ In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusio… Thomas Paine
“ Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine
“ We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pre… 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. 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. Thomas Paine
“ It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. Thomas Paine
“ These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love and t… 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. 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. Thomas Paine
“ O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, an… Thomas Paine
“ The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred yea… Thomas Paine
“ Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a… Thomas Paine
