Quotes from Thomas Paine
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- Thomas Paine
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Thomas Paine
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
- Thomas Paine
I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.
- Thomas Paine
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
- Thomas Paine
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
- Thomas Paine
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
- Thomas Paine
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
- Thomas Paine
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.
- Thomas Paine
The true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
- Thomas Paine
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
- Thomas Paine
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
- Thomas Paine