Time makes more converts than reason. – Thomas Paine
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. – Thomas Paine

Time makes more converts than reason. – Thomas Paine
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. – 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
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine