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Letter "T" » Thomas Paine Quotes
«If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person»
«The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
governing, ignorant, individuals, mankind, monopolize, monopolized, rascally, trade, traded
«There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Nature,
Religion,
Science
| Keywords:
blasphemer, blasphemers, Christians, Christian Science, impostor, impostors, Jews, pervert, perverted, perverting, perverts, priests, scarcely, sought
«Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it»
«Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American state, citizenship, distinction, former, inferior, in the United States, latter, local, national, title, varies
«The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.»
«But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
ascend, ascends, buried, buries, burying, crucified, crucifying, dead person, old person, Old Testament, passage, speaks, testament, testaments, The Dead
«The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice»
«It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us»
«When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Education,
Planning,
Virtue
| Keywords:
hereditary, planning, posterity
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