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The word of God is the creation we behold and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
-Thomas Payne

But 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 Payne

In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
-Thomas Payne

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
-Thomas Payne

There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required.
-Thomas Payne

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
-Thomas Payne

The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent - of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe.
-Thomas Payne

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
-Thomas Payne

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
-Thomas Payne

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
-Thomas Payne

It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradation we surmount the force of local prejudice as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.
-Thomas Payne

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.
-Thomas Payne

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
-Thomas Payne

But 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 Payne

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
-Thomas Payne

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.
-Thomas Payne

Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government.
-Thomas Payne

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
-Thomas Payne

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