The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
THOMAS PAINEThe World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
THOMAS PAINEWhat is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
THOMAS PAINEA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINEThe real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment is best which governs least.
THOMAS PAINEThe right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
THOMAS PAINEIt is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
THOMAS PAINEChristianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
THOMAS PAINEA body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
THOMAS PAINEIt is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
THOMAS PAINEWhere knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
THOMAS PAINEPractical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
THOMAS PAINEA constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
THOMAS PAINEGovernment without a constitution, is a power without a right.
THOMAS PAINETo take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
THOMAS PAINEAll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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