I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. – Thomas Paine
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. – Thomas Paine

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. – Thomas Paine
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. – Thomas Paine
Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine
The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. – Thomas Paine