Thomas Paine: “If better reasons can be shown for them than against them, they will stand; if the contrary, they will not.”

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.