Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.
Thomas PaineThe graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
Thomas PaineWe have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas PaineIt is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
Thomas Paine