I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.