Ronald Rende

“Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
― Thomas Paine

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense