"Time makes more converts than reason...." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”

“Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.”

“The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.”

“Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.”

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

“Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.”

“He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.”

“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”

“That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.”