"Man did not make the earth, and..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Men should not petition for rights, but take them”

“But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?”

“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.”

“The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.”

“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.”

“Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.”

“Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.”

“Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.”

“The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.”