It is the pride of kings that throws man kind into confusion.
Thomas PaineO ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but
the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,
have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and England
hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in
time an asylum for mankind.
Stichwörter: freedom oppression opposition rebel
Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.
Stichwörter: common-sense slavery trickery subdue
pamphleteer
Thomas PaineA hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.
Thomas PaineStichwörter: government king heredity ruling
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child,cannot be true.
Thomas PaineStichwörter: religion
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is
Thomas Painethe harder the conflict,the more glorious the triumph
Thomas PaineHe who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Thomas PaineStichwörter: wisdom activism truth-and-lies
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.
Thomas PaineStichwörter: science education knowledge theology principles study charlatanism
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