Thomas Paine

Parents

"If ever an universal religion should prevail, it will not be in believing anything new, but in getting rid of redundancies, and believing as man believed at first."
"Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie?"
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
"Let us not suppose an evil for the sake of its remedy."
"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
“On Slavery”
“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Rights of Man
The Age of Reason