151 ordspråk av Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine föddes den January 29th 1737 och dog den 8 June 1809 - and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.
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 If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

 Is it a fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, and how is it proved? If a God, he could not die, and as a man he could not redeem

 Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities

 Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in? Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewi

 It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

 It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off

 It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance

 It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

 It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us

 It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

 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.

 It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

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

 It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

 It is with pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on


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