Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
Thomas PaineWhere there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
Thomas PainePolitics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.
Thomas PaineHis [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.
Thomas Paine