Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
Thomas PaineFor freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
Thomas PaineWe repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
Thomas PaineHuman language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
Thomas PaineRights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
Thomas Paine