Category: Quote of the Day

A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.

Thomas Paine

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Thomas Paine

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Paine

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace” and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Thomas Paine

In America, the law is king.

Thomas Paine