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Thomas Paine Quotes

«Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighbor are nothing (3) That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit in its faith (4) That reason in religion»
«One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion»
«For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Liberty | Keywords: freeman, freemen
«The adulterous connection between church and state»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Religion | Keywords: adulterous, connection
«It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | Keywords: General Idea
«I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer)
«Man must go back to nature for information.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer)
«The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament»
«We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Possibility | Keywords: actualities
«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 (Writer) | About: Defeat, Enemies | Keywords: acres, defending

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