Thomas Paine, quotes

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.

What is it the Bible teaches us? — rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember, that virtue not hereditary.