The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
Thomas PaineWhen it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government
Thomas PaineMan cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
Thomas PaineBut such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine