Ofurhetjur Efahyggjunnar - 4. Thomas Paine (1737 -1809)

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

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man"

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

"From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?"

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."

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

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."

"The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy."

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

Thomas Paine (1737 -1809)