Quotes About Thomas Paine

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?

Thomas Paine, the famous American patriot, wrote the following in an essay in 1805." He cleared his throat. "Masonry is the remains of the religion of the ancient Druids, who, like the priests of Heliopolis in Egypt and the Magi of Persia, were priests of the sun.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

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, who had a shrewd eye for military matters, was closer to the mark in a public letter to Admiral Howe published in early 1777. "In all the wars which you have formerly been concerned in, you had only armies to contend with," Paine observed. "In this case, you have both an army and a country to combat.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Thomas Paine remains just one of innumerable Christian missionaries whose contributions to science have been denied recognition by men of science.

He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

Thomas Paine, who had arrived in Philadelphia two years earlier, provided Hamilton with a perfect model when he anonymously published Common Sense. The onetime corset maker and excise officer issued a resounding call for American independence that sold a stupendous 120,000 copies by year's end.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

When the rule of law is being perverted to the rule of the 'good intentions' of unelected judges, it is time for serious study of Thomas Paine and Sam Adams as much as Washington and Madison.

Thomas Paine, one of the principal architects of American democracy, wrote a formal denunciation of civilization in a tract called Agrarian Justice: "Whether… civilization has most promoted or most injured the general happiness of man is a question that may be strongly contested," he wrote in 1795. "[Both] the most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government." Thomas Paine

was Thomas Paine's misfortune, as mentioned, that he not only became involved but indiscreetly leaked privileged, sensitive information entrusted to him as secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs.

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.