"Prejudice will fall in a combat with..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“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.”

“It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.”

“The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.”

“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”

“If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument”

“The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.”

“When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?”

“That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.”

“A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.”