Quotes by Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.