I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. – Thomas Paine
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. – Thomas Paine
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine