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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace


Thomas Paine

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THOMAS PAINE Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...
THOMAS PAINE With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrecti...
THOMAS PAINE The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapte...
THOMAS PAINE It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...
THOMAS PAINE In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...
THOMAS PAINE That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of n...
THOMAS PAINE Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou...
THOMAS PAINE People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
THOMAS PAINE He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
THOMAS PAINE As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ...
THOMAS PAINE The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has...
THOMAS PAINE When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...
THOMAS PAINE Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
THOMAS PAINE But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing ...
THOMAS PAINE The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...
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