It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. – Thomas Paine
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. – Thomas Paine

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. – Thomas Paine
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. – Thomas Paine
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. – 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