Thomas Paine — "The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never …"

"It is impossible for us to suppose that a God, who is just, can be the author of a religion which is not just."

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."

"It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies."

"The strength of a nation does not consist in the extent of its territory, but in the extent of its commerce."

"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 demonstra…"