Time makes more Converts than Reason.
~ in Common Sense

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of men and women.
~ in The American Crisis

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect the conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.
~ in Common Sense

God is almost forgotten in the Christian religion. Everything, even the creation, is ascribed to the son of Mary.

What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
~ in The Age of Reason

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself that this thing called Christianity.
~ in The Age of Reason

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
~ in the Rights of Man

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

That government is best which governs least.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.