I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
Thomas PaineArms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.
Thomas PaineThere is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.
Thomas Paine