It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
Thomas PaineIf anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.
Thomas PaineIt is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas PaineThat God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas PaineThe American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
Thomas PaineThe 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