Thomas Paine
Please consider the following quote and place your thoughts about it within your reply:
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-- Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (Hover)
"But if you say, you can still pass the violations over, then I ask, hath your house been burnt? Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor? If you have not, then you are not a judge of those who have."
-- Thomas Paine - (1737-1809) - Source: Common Sense, 1776
"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
-- Thomas Paine -- (1737-1809) US Founding father
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest"
-- Thomas Paine
"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.'
-- Thomas Paine
"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
-- Thomas Paine - (1737-1809)
"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government."
-- Thomas Paine