The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine More Quotes by Thomas Paine More Quotes From Thomas Paine Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them." Thomas Paine men life father Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. Thomas Paine men believe lying Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. Thomas Paine taxation government hands Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. Thomas Paine matter wise men As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight. Thomas Paine family running children My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine inspiring inspirational life Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. Thomas Paine temptation perfect class My mind is my own church. Thomas Paine motivation church mind ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. Thomas Paine atheist book lying The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. Thomas Paine historical sound america Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood. Thomas Paine rotten book religion The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. Thomas Paine government home people When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine 4th-of-july pain war Common sense will tell us, that Thomas Paine common-sense liberty common The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up. Thomas Paine apples men jesus The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God. Thomas Paine independent doe men Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state. Thomas Paine civilization two way Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Thomas Paine motivation law religion I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book. Thomas Paine religious bible book The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal. Thomas Paine teaching philosophy school
