Thomas Paine

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.