“The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.” Thomas Paine
“The American Constitutions were to Liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.” Thomas Paine
“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.” Thomas Paine
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” Thomas Paine
