It is impossible to reason upon things not comprehensible by reason; and therefore, if you keep to your text, which priests seldom do… you must admit a religion to which reason can apply, and this certainly is not the Christian religion. There is not an article in the Christian religion that is cognizable by reason.
Thomas Paine Quotes
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us.
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.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
None of those books have the appearance of being written by the persons whose names they bear, neither do we know who the authors were. They come to us on no other authority than the church of Rome, which the Protestant Priests call the Whore of Babylon.
The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the New Testament, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
