"He is not affected by the reality..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.”

“When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.”

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

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”

“Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.”

“We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.”

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”

“Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.”

“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”