Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.
Thomas PaineThe animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.
Thomas PaineThe Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
Thomas Paine