Quotes by Thomas Paine

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of...

#God

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of...

#God

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof...

#God

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives...

#Values

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

#Truth

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it...

#Truth

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers...

#Writers

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by...

#Government

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If...

#Government

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war...

#Government

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than...

#Religion

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of...

#Religion